Automate older version of Word

[agibsonsw]

Hello.

A guy has Excel 2007 but Word 2003 on his computer. When we automate Word and close and save a document he receives a message asking if it's okay to change his Normal document.
Is is possible to prevent this behaviour when using automation?

Thanks, Andy.

[StuartR]

Are you SURE that he is not changing normal.dot?
Can you test this code with Excel 2003 and Word 2003 to see what it does there.

[agibsonsw]

Hello. It's my sample code and all it does it write a sentence, save and close:

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Dim wd as Word.Application 'with Tools/References Word 11.0 ticked
Set wd = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wd.Visible = True
wd.Documents.Add
wd.Selection.TypeText "Hello to Word"
wd.SaveAs "C:\Some Path\something"
wd.Close
wd.Quit
Set wd = Nothing

Andy.

[HansV]

If the user gets prompted to save Normal.dot with this code, they probably get prompted when they use Word "normally" too.

[agibsonsw]

I thought that as well. I'll check again tomorrow. Maybe they have some company code running when they start Word - that'll probably put the kibosh on automating Word.

Thanks, Andy.