Of course. By "keystroke" I mean a single key combination, such as
Ctrl+X, or Winkey plus W, or whatever.

But the issue is not the particular keyboard configuation; the issue is
finding a single command that puts' Windows' focus on the current open
Word instance without my having to tab through a bunch of alt+tab steps
and so on.

Larry



fumei wrote:
There are LOTS of keyboard mappers out there. It seems to me, from
your last post, that is what you want. A single keystroke to get
back to Word.

Trying to do this with ONE keystroke (not some Ctrl-keycharacter,
Alt-keycharacter combination - not much different from using Alt-Tab,
or your mouse) via code...well, no offence, but it seems, especially
with the amount of keystrokes written into this thread, a large
amount of work for little return.

Find a key mapper.

"Larry" wrote:

All I really want is to be able, using a single keystroke not the
mouse, to bring the focus to the already open Word window. Not
using Alt+Tab, not using the Mouse to click on the task bar button,
but to use a keystroke that perhaps runs a .vbs file that makes the
open Word instance the active window.

I'm constantly going back and forth between Word and other
application windows, and I want an instant, keyboard-oriented,
one-step way of returning to the Word window.

Larry



Jonathan West wrote:
If you want to get hold of an existing instance of Word, then you
should use GetObject as Jezebel described to get an object
reference to it. Then you can use the Run method of the Word
Application object to run the macro.


"Larry" wrote in message
...


Thanks Jezebel.

Since it is possible from the Run dialog box to start Word and
run a macro in one step, I'm thinking that if, with Word open
but not active, I ran the macro I'm looking for, I could get a
macro that activated the open Word window without opening a
second instance of Word.

However, when I create a macro in Normal called WordActivate
using the code you suggested,

Dim wrdApp as object
On error resume next
Set wrdApp = GetObject("Word.Application")

and (with Word open but not active) run this in the Run dialog
box:

Winword.exe /mWordActivate

A second instance of Word opens.

The same happens when I put the other set of code in
WordActivate.

Any other ideas? Thanks much.

Larry




Jezebel wrote:
If you mean from VB, there are two methods --

1) Late binding

Dim wrdApp as object
On error resume next
Set wrdApp = GetObject("Word.Application")
If wrdApp is nothing then
.... Word was not running .... no instance to get


or 2) Early binding

Dim wrdApp as Word.Application
On error resume next
Set wrdApp = Word.Application
If wrdApp is nothing then
.... Word was not running .... no instance to get




"Larry" wrote in message
...
I would be great to find a way to activate Word without
starting a new Word instance. I think I asked about this a
year or two ago, and didn't get anywhere. Any ideas?