[AccessD] Is MSWord.exe running??

Selina,

Have a look at Bryan Carbonnell's (July, 2002) articles on Word
automation:

http://www.databaseadvisors.com/newsletters.htm

I believe he covers this topic in some detail.  He includes things like
handling Word sessions that are running when your code fires (you want
to be sure that you don't hose the user's work by closing or otherwise
messing with an existing session.)

HTH!

Don McGillivray

-----Original Message-----
From: Selina Iddon [mailto:selina at easydatabases.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:20 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Is MSWord.exe running??


Good Morning Everyone

I have an application that silently opens MS Word, merges it, saves it
etc, without the user sitting watching the whole flickering effect.
Problem is if it errors, the Process is left running in the Task
Manager, and the novice user has to restart the PC or go into Task
Manager and End Task the process. (Otherwise it causes errors next
time).

Can anyone please help me with code to 1.  check if a MS Word process is
running and 2. end it.

Thanks Heaps
Selina


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