The information in this article applies to:
SYMPTOMS
When you use the Visual Basic for Applications Documents collection to
return all currently open documents, the document names returned to
your procedure may produce duplicate names and the collection returned
is incorrect.
Doc1.docand you close Doc1.doc and then run your procedure to return the collection, the following series of files is returned, even though Doc3.doc is still open. Doc2.doc WORKAROUNDMicrosoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to create and debug procedures. Microsoft support professionals can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific needs. If you have limited programming experience, you may want to contact the Microsoft fee-based consulting line at (800) 936-5200. For more information about the support options available from Microsoft, please see the following page on the World Wide Web: http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/refguide/Use the Windows collection in a Visual Basic for Applications macro to work around this problem. For example:
If you have several windows, which contain the same document, open at
the same time, modify the code to check for duplicate document window
names. For example:
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. MORE INFORMATIONFor additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles REFERENCESFor more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications Additional query words: wordcon vb vba vbe
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