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James
> General Question:
> What characteristics of Word or the particular document are they that
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> David
> General Question:
> What characteristics of Word or the particular document are they that
> display as an email editor, rather than a normal document? How can one tell
> from VBA which mode a document represents?
you know that a document is actually an email being edited in Outlook
(with Outlook setup to use Ms-Word as editor) by looking up the
document's kink property:
If ActiveDocument.Kind = wdDocumentEmail Then...
> Specific:
> Word always seems to start up with the window mode in which it was last used
> ie Full Screen or smaller window. I would like to start all normal documents
> up full-screen but the email editor as a smaller window eg by code in the
> document open event. How would I do this, please? Are there any settings that
> would help, without involving VBA?
I don't think so, since you're testing a condition (is this an email?
If so then...else ...). VBA coding will be needed, and would look like
that:
If ActiveDocument.Kind = wdDocumentEmail Then
ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal
Else
ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize
End If
HTH,
Yves Champollion
www.champollion.net