Read-only Word doc is "undefined" in its own VBA

[groleau]

I needed to make some changes to some old tools, so I put the entire directory
in SourceSafe. This makes all the files read-only. Access and Excel, of course,
work by modifying their own files, so I immediately check them out again.

However, there was a Word file with VBA that only modifies other files, so I left it
checked in. VBA halted with an "object undefined" on the command to reactivate
the tool's window.

'            Windows(this_doc_name).Activate

In this case, the line was "playing safe" but wasn't really needed. Not sure what you would do if you actually needed to put focus back in that window.

I think I'll convert this tool to .Net only because it's a really simple thing that I can get some practice on.

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Wes Groleau

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