Active Document not Active? (Windows 2000/Word 2000)

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Hello All,

I have a macro that I’ve been working on for a while now that basically pastes a document as unformatted text, and reapplies formatting, footnotes, everything. I’m using the Range property to copy paragraphs and everywhere else. Toward the end if the macro I’m closing old document, reopening it (invisible to end-user) and evaluating more formats.

The problem is when the macro is done, my new document is not active. I’ve set my ranges to nothing, told new document to activate, but nothing works. I can see the document, but can’t type, use arrows. Word just beeps at me. My toolbars are not active either. If I click another document or application on the task bar and come back to my new document, then it becomes active.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Kyle Knowles
Connetics Corporation

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hi Kyle,

dim Newdoc as document
set newdoc=documents.add
‘…
‘…
newdoc.activate
application.activate

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Hi Pieter. Thanks for the response. I added this to my code but now I’m getting error message: 4601 Application Cannot be Activated.

Here is my code:

oNewTemplate.Activate
Application.Activate
oNewTemplate.ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
oNewTemplate.ActiveWindow.Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
oNewTemplate.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit

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Is it possible that there is a modal dialog box in the application that is hidden from view? Are you running Nortons AntiVirus as this has an option setting that causes dialogs to be hidden until you move away and then back to the application?

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Hi Andrew.

Sorry it took so long to respond. For some reason my password was reset on the Lounge and I had to go and look it up again. We are running Symantec and my dialog is not supposed to be hidden.

Kyle

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Hi Andrew.

Sorry it took so long to respond. For some reason my password was reset on the Lounge and I had to go and look it up again. We are running Symantec and my dialog is not supposed to be hidden.

Kyle

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Is it possible that there is a modal dialog box in the application that is hidden from view? Are you running Nortons AntiVirus as this has an option setting that causes dialogs to be hidden until you move away and then back to the application?

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Hi Pieter. Thanks for the response. I added this to my code but now I’m getting error message: 4601 Application Cannot be Activated.

Here is my code:

oNewTemplate.Activate
Application.Activate
oNewTemplate.ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
oNewTemplate.ActiveWindow.Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
oNewTemplate.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit

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hi Kyle,

dim Newdoc as document
set newdoc=documents.add
‘…
‘…
newdoc.activate
application.activate

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Are you sure the invisible document is closed at that time?

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Yes, I’m closing the old document a few steps back.

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we’ll need to see the full code this time i think if we want to solve the problem.

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Well, it’s a huge piece. I’m begining to think that my template is corrupt. Things that should work will only work when I step through the code.

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hi Kyle,

you can try and download the word code cleaner
recomplie after that, save and close and relaunch word.
also check you have no missing references.
if you are working with a userform, the activate problem might be a word 2000 specific bug, which i will not abe able to reproduce because i’m using 2002.

if you still experience problems after that, you can send the template to me personally if you want in case it contains confidential information. or trim it down to code that only demonstrates the problem.

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Ok Pieter I will send it to you along with my test document. Thank you so much.

Kyle

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Hi Kyle and Pieter,

Please post the outcome of your private communication in this thread. See Rule 10. Thanks in advance

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Hi Kyle and Pieter,

Please post the outcome of your private communication in this thread. See Rule 10. Thanks in advance

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Ok Pieter I will send it to you along with my test document. Thank you so much.

Kyle

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hi Kyle,

you can try and download the word code cleaner
recomplie after that, save and close and relaunch word.
also check you have no missing references.
if you are working with a userform, the activate problem might be a word 2000 specific bug, which i will not abe able to reproduce because i’m using 2002.

if you still experience problems after that, you can send the template to me personally if you want in case it contains confidential information. or trim it down to code that only demonstrates the problem.

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Well, it’s a huge piece. I’m begining to think that my template is corrupt. Things that should work will only work when I step through the code.

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we’ll need to see the full code this time i think if we want to solve the problem.

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Yes, I’m closing the old document a few steps back.

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Are you sure the invisible document is closed at that time?

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