Microsoft KB Archive/159345

= WD97: Macro to Determine Whether File Is Already Open =

Article ID: 159345

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q159345





SUMMARY
The "More Information" section of this article describes how to create a Visual Basic for Applications macro that determines if a specified file is already open.



MORE INFORMATION
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This macro example loops through each document in the Documents collection and determines whether the path and name of the document you want to open match the path and name of a file already open in Word. If there is a match, the macro displays a message box stating that the document is currently open in Word. If there is no match, then the macro opens the document. Sub IsDocAlreadyOpen Dim sDocToOpen As String Dim dDoc As Document ' Replace the following example document path and file ' with the path and file you want to open. sDocToOpen = "C:\My Documents\MyDoc.Doc" ' Loop through all open documents. For Each dDoc In Documents 'Test for match. If UCase(sDocToOpen) = UCase(dDoc.Path & "\" & dDoc.Name) Then ' If open, display a message. MsgBox sDocToOpen & " is already open." Exit Sub Else On Error Resume Next ' Open the document. Documents.Open (sDocToOpen) ' If the document does not exist or the path/name is           ' incorrect an error will occur. This error trap ' displays the error information. If Err <> 0 Then MsgBox Err.Description End If           Exit Sub End If     ' Loop to next document. Next dDoc End Sub For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

