Ignoring "Read-Only/Notify" alerts when opening Word docs

Hi,

I am new to VBA and am having problems with writing code to open word documents in VBA. Any help would be appreciated!

My code traverses through a specified folder and finds all the Word documents located there. When it finds these docs, it opens each in turn and executes some code accordingly.

The problem is that if somebody is currently using that file a dialog box comes up asking the user whether they want to open the file in "Read-Only" or "Notify when read/write is available" mode. This causes my program to stall until the user makes a selection.

I know in Excel VBA there is a parameter in the Workbooks.Open(...) function called Notify that allows the program to specify this automatically, but there doesn't appear to be an equivalent in Word. Does anybody have any suggestions that may help me out?

I guess I just need to program to generate an error if a prompt like this is activated so my code can deal with it and not need user input.

Thanks heaps in advance

Jill

PS- I have tried the following code in order to disable the warning messages, but the "File in use" dialog box still pops up... am I doing anything wrong here??

THanks heaps!

*******SAMPLE CODE********************

Sub FindLinkedDocuments()

Word.Application.Visible = False
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Word.Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
Excel.Application.DisplayAlerts = False

<my code>

Word.Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsAll
Excel.Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Word.Application.Visible = True


End Sub

I don't know off the top of my head but is there not an

Code:

---

If [wordDOC].locked = true

---

or the like? :ehh: