Is word running?

I have developed a small application, which works fine for the most part. The problem begins when it tries to open Word or Excel. If they are not already opened everything is fine, but if user opened Word or Excel (and of course didn't close them) before running my program it crashes basically (not everytime but usually it does). So here are my Q's:
1) how to check if Word or Excel is running. I know that I could look for window with specific caption (what I did actually), but how can I check if word or excel are in memory but are not visible?
2) how to close them once I know that they are running (through code of course).
I hope you get the idea of what I mean. Thanks in advance

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Visual Basic Programmer
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PolComSoft
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[This message has been edited by QWERTY (edited 02-18-2000).]

If you do an:

AppActivate "Word"

and and error returns it isn't running :)

Good luck,

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DiGiTaIErRoR
VB, QBasic, Iptscrae, HTML
Quote: There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

Hi,

I tried the following, and it worked pretty good:

Code:

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Dim appObj As Object

On Error Resume Next
Set appObj = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
If Err Then
    MsgBox "Word is not running"
Else
    MsgBox "Word will be closed!"
    appObj.Quit
End If

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Replace "Word.Application" with "Excel.Application" for MS Excel.

Roger

Thanks :cool:

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Visual Basic Programmer
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PolComSoft
You will hear a lot about it.



[This message has been edited by QWERTY (edited 02-18-2000).]

here is another functon to see if an app is running, covers all of msoffice

Function fIsAppRunning(ByVal strAppName As String, _
Optional fActivate As Boolean) As Boolean
Dim lngH As Long, strClassName As String
Dim lngX As Long, lngTmp As Long
Const WM_USER = 1024
On Local Error GoTo fIsAppRunning_Err
fIsAppRunning = False
Select Case LCase$(strAppName)
Case "excel": strClassName = "XLMain"
Case "word": strClassName = "OpusApp"
Case "access": strClassName = "OMain"
Case "powerpoint95": strClassName = "PP7FrameClass"
Case "powerpoint97": strClassName = "PP97FrameClass"
Case "notepad": strClassName = "NOTEPAD"
Case "paintbrush": strClassName = "pbParent"
Case "wordpad": strClassName = "WordPadClass"
Case Else: strClassName = ""
End Select

If strClassName = "" Then
lngH = apiFindWindow(vbNullString, strAppName)
Else
lngH = apiFindWindow(strClassName, vbNullString)
End If
If lngH <> 0 Then
apiSendMessage lngH, WM_USER + 18, 0, 0
lngX = apiIsIconic(lngH)
If lngX <> 0 Then
lngTmp = apiShowWindow(lngH, SW_SHOWNORMAL)
End If
If fActivate Then
lngTmp = apiSetForegroundWindow(lngH)
End If
fIsAppRunning = True
End If
fIsAppRunning_Exit:
Exit Function
fIsAppRunning_Err:
fIsAppRunning = False
Resume fIsAppRunning_Exit
End Function

Code:

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        hwnd = 999
        Do While hwnd > 0
            hwnd = FindWindow("OpusApp", vbNullString)
            If hwnd > 0 Then
                If vbCancel = MsgBox("Please close Microsoft Word and then press " _
                            & "OK to continue or Cancel to wait.", vbCritical + vbOKCancel, _
                              "Warning") Then
                    Exit Sub
                End If
            End If
        Loop

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