How to open a document that's not visible with vba

[Alan Riley]

I want to open a document in the background, and move text to the
active document. In windows I've used...

Set doc = Documents.Open(Filename:=strFileName, Visible:=False)

....to return an invisible document object without interupting the users
session.

However, it seems that the 'Visible' parameter is not available on the
Mac, so I was hoping that one of you may have an alternative solution.

Thanks
Alan

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Alan:

No, we do not have an alternative. Setting the document invisible on the
Mac sets it "Inactive", and if it's inactive, your macro stops.

Sorry

I want to open a document in the background, and move text to the
active document. In windows I've used...

Set doc = Documents.Open(Filename:=strFileName, Visible:=False)

...to return an invisible document object without interupting the users

session.

However, it seems that the 'Visible' parameter is not available on the
Mac, so I was hoping that one of you may have an alternative solution.

Thanks
Alan

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[Alan Riley]

Thanks for the reply John - that's a pain.

Alan