Problem with C# Word Automation when a user opensanother word document

[Adam]

Hi all,

I hope I'm posting in the correct place. I have been searching for a few hours now and I haven't been able to find a solution as yet.

I have successfully been able to write a C# program which automates word to produce a series of word documents (1,000+ pages each).

The problem I am finding is that when a user opens Word it's creating a new document within the instance of Word which was created by my C# program. When this occurs it causes my program to crash because its attempts of start entering data within the new document instead of the original document created by my program.

Is there any way to force word to create a new instance of word for any documents opened or created (by the user themselves) while my program is working with it's instance of word.

I've noticed that if another copy of word is running before my program creates it's instance there is no problems.

I'd appreciate anyones help.

Thanks, Adam

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[Cindy M.]

I have successfully been able to write a C# program which automates word to
produce a series of word documents (1,000+ pages each).

The problem I am finding is that when a user opens Word it's creating a new

document within the instance of Word which was created by my C# program. When this
occurs it causes my program to crash because its attempts of start entering data
within the new document instead of the original document created by my program.

Is there any way to force word to create a new instance of word for any documents

opened or created (by the user themselves) while my program is working with it's
instance of word.

I've noticed that if another copy of word is running before my program creates

it's instance there is no problems.There's not really any way to reliably control this, no.

However, if you assign the document you need to work with to a (class-level,
perhaps) variable when you create it, you should be able to work with that document
without conflicting with the user. AVOID using any construct such as ActiveDocument
or Selection.

Word.Document Doc = wdApp.Documents.Open(ref oTemplate, //other params);

Cindy Meister
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http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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