Code such as the code below executes ugly.
The Documents.Add causes the blob to appear (an empty hidden Word window)
One has to then take action to remove the critter.
Quit causes the blob to briefly appear, then go away.

I wrote this code in VB2005 Express Beta. When the Sub ends, Excel still
shows as a running process in the Task Manager. How do I shut Excel down?
Thanks,
Kenneth Hutson

Using Word 2003 on Windows XP
We have a bunch of big documents we are converting from paper to electronic.
These documents switch back and forth frequently between text in portrait,
and drawings in landscape.  All pages have their headers and footers in

Any brilliant person out there who can make a "save as .dot" macro, that will
automatically retain the original file name and file location, and save it as
a .dot file?   Bacground of why I would need such a thing is below.  Thanks
in advance for any help or thoughts anyone can ...

I want to use FindControl method to find Menu Item "Tools", but I dont know
what it's tag and id definition is. Where are office build-in resource ID
definitions?

This is not a big problem, but is an inconvenience to me. Please try to get
to this problem.

I want to modify Normal.dot file through VB.NET. Please help how I can do
that as i have to remove only one entry from the same and have to keep the
other things intact. One solution is to delete teh file Normal.dot but I dont
want to change other users settings. Please Help.

If you use File>Save to initially save a new file that has never been saved
before Word opens the SaveAs dialog box.  What attribute of the file is Word
using to determine if the file has not been previously saved?
Thanks.

I want to track Document modification event. i.e if someone modify the
document i want to track it. I tried to find out the TLB file of MS Word.
but couldn't find any event. Isn't there any event?
Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

I'd like to filter the file selection in the wdDialogFileOpen dialog.  I know
you can do it in MSO File Dialogs, but I can't find a way to do it with the
Word dialog.
Any ideas?

Hi there, I have a macro that copies embedded word tables in PPT to a
WORD document, but with large PPT files I get a Word error "Insufficient
Memory or Disk space. Close extra windows and save your work", but I have a
lot of RAM and disk space. Also, if I try to debug VBA, the 'Set ...

is it possible to store some binary data into the Word document using
VBA or C++. Actually i have to store some binary data read from some
files into the word document through my Word Plugin. This binary data
will be hidden from the user. Other people will not be able to access

I'm automating showing the "Mail Merge" menu and if it is nor visible then
adding the "Insert Merge Field" pop up.
I have mastered showing the command bar but I am having problems with
getting the pop up to work.

Hi Jean-Guy,
Thanks for your reply.
I am running Powerpoint/Word 2000 SR-1 on Windows 2000 Professional. The PPt
files are from 100 to 300 slides with about 1 word embedded table in each

When running my macro, fill of 350 bookmarks, i get this error. There is no
problem with code. Only a lot of actions.
Is there a way to tell word not to cache these actions for undo - redo.
Thanks