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Thread: How to Drag and Drop Word Doc onto VB Program?

  1. Nov 20th, 2008, 02:51 PM #1
    John1in2
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    How to Drag and Drop Word Doc onto VB Program?

    My Visual Basic program uses VB automation to
    - open a word file
    - analyze the data
    - close Word
    - open an Excel file
    - analyze the data
    - open a new worksheet
    - put results in
    - close Excel
    - give results to the program user
    - ask to save/not save
    - end

    How can I impelment "drag and drop" for word file into my program?

    My goal is that a user runs my program, then clicks the word file and drags it to the running program, which then proceeds with the analysis and the rest of the program runs.
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  2. Nov 20th, 2008, 03:33 PM #2
    westconn1
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    Re: How to Drag and Drop Word Doc onto VB Program?

    set a form or some controls OLEdropmode property to manual, then catch the drop event in the OLEdragdrop event

    msgbox data.files(1) 'to display the filename
    i do my best to test code works before i post it, but sometimes am unable to do so for some reason, and usually say so if this is the case.
    Note code snippets posted are just that and do not include error handling that is required in real world applications, but avoid On Error Resume Next

    dim all variables as required as often i have done so elsewhere in my code but only posted the relevant part

    come back and mark your original post as resolved if your problem is fixed
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