[AccessD] Automation of word

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:48, jwcolby wrote:
> I have a rather elaborate mail merge system in a client's system.  ATM I
> open the document, merge the date and the user takes over, filling in
> things that they need to fill in, then printing and closing the word
> instance.  It works well enough however I do not control the save of the
> document, and very occasionally Word does not close cleanly, leaving a
> hidden instance open WITH the associated merge text document open as well,
> preventing the next merge from occurring.
>
> I need to know if it is possible to open word in a mode that prevents it
> from being closed by the user?  I would then have the user go back to my
> application and press a button saying that they succeeded in doing the mail
> merge.  I would save the document and close Word down.
>
> Can I prevent the user from closing Word?
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com

John,

IIRC, the solution may lie in the three "auto" macros you can use in the 
doument template that is used.  Its some years since I delved in that 
diretion, and as I have no longer an M$ based system I can't indicate any 
more pointers than that I recall that one is automatically invoked on the 
document being closed.

hth

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regards

Bruce