Creating word doc with FILLIN field hides all toolbars

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Barry Gilbert - 27 Jun 2007 20:44 GMT

I have some code in a VB6 app that opens a Word doc based on a template. It
looks like this:

Dim wordApp As Word.Application
Set wordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wordApp.Documents.Add Template:=(strPathToTemplate), NewTemplate:=False
wordApp.Application.Visible=True

When I create a doc manually, everything works as expected. However, when I
open it from this code, the Word window opens with no toolbars visible.

Any ideas would be helpful.

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Ed - 28 Jun 2007 18:38 GMT

Hi Barry,

We used to get that problem when automating Word from VB6 to perform a mail
merge.

The way I think you can get around it is to make Word visible before
creating the document.

(Not strictly relevant here but we also had a problem with at least one
version of Word - 2000 I think - where after Word was automated the toolbars
would be visible but not active. We got around this by activating the app -
e.g. wordApp.Activate.)

Regards.

Ed

> I have some code in a VB6 app that opens a Word doc based on a template. It
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Barry Gilbert - 28 Jun 2007 18:52 GMT

Ed,

Thanks very much for your suggestion! Making the app visible first did the
trick.

Regards,
Barry

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Ed - 28 Jun 2007 18:56 GMT

Hi Barry,

You're welcome.

Cheers.

Ed

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