Multiple Instances of Word Applications

[yaoziyuan]

Through OLE programming we can start multiple WINWORD.EXE's. In my case
(Word 2003), I have seen that if I use VBA to query Documents.Count, it
will return the number of documents opened in *all* Word application
instances (WINWORD.EXE). Well this behavior of MS Word is what I want,
but I wonder if this is true for earlier versions of Word as well (2000
and 2002 are very likely, but what about 97?)

Regards,
Tom

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Through OLE programming we can start multiple WINWORD.EXE's. In my case

(Word 2003), I have seen that if I use VBA to query Documents.Count, it
will return the number of documents opened in *all* Word application
instances (WINWORD.EXE). Well this behavior of MS Word is what I want,
but I wonder if this is true for earlier versions of Word as well (2000
and 2002 are very likely, but what about 97?)

Before we can even venture an opinion, we'd need to know exactly what
kind of code you're using to "start multiple instances" of Word in 2003.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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