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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? |
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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? |
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Would take a script to do that. Then make a shortcut to that, then
assign a keystroke combo to that. Question: What does the Script do when there's two instances of Word open? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Larry" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Well, I almost never have two instances of Word open, so that's not an
issue. But if there's a .vbs script to do this (bring focus to the Word window without opening a new instance of Word), I would love to find it. Larry Gary S. Terhune wrote: Would take a script to do that. Then make a shortcut to that, then assign a keystroke combo to that. Question: What does the Script do when there's two instances of Word open? "Larry" wrote in message ... 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? |
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I don't know of one already in existence, I'm just fairly certain I can
do it. When I get a breather, here, I'll see what I can come up with. I'll also see if I can come up with a way to handle the more-than-one-instance-of-Word issue. I don't post scripts here. Scripts as attachments are very frowned upon, even if they have a TXT extension, and code that can't be allowed to wrap usually gets wrapped by newsreaders if I include it in the body, making it worthless. So email me, to verify your address. Which brings up the subject that I neglected last time I responded to you. Using your real email address in newsgroups invites tons of SPAM, both the harmless but annoying kind and the very dangerous kind. Email addresses in public forums also get used as "From" addresses by bots that spread SPAM and viruses. You only know this is happening when you start getting Bounce notices regarding viruses in emails you never sent to people you don't know. It's too late, now, for the address you're using here, but your might want to consider changing your address and putting this one to rest. Newsgroup accounts permit using fake addresses. Trick is to not use one that *could_be* someone's real address. Take a look around at some of the other posts here for examples. Me, I use a real address so people can contact me via email if they really have to--but I use it *only* for NG posting and put up with the related inconvenience as a public service. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Larry" wrote in message ... Well, I almost never have two instances of Word open, so that's not an issue. But if there's a .vbs script to do this (bring focus to the Word window without opening a new instance of Word), I would love to find it. Larry Gary S. Terhune wrote: Would take a script to do that. Then make a shortcut to that, then assign a keystroke combo to that. Question: What does the Script do when there's two instances of Word open? "Larry" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Ok, I'll send you my e-mail address (but couldn't you just copy the code
of the .vbs file into a news message?). .. As for using a fake address in the newsgroups, I thought I had changed it to a fake address some time back, but I guess it didn't take. I'll have to look again into how this is done using OE6. Thanks, Larry "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... I don't know of one already in existence, I'm just fairly certain I can do it. When I get a breather, here, I'll see what I can come up with. I'll also see if I can come up with a way to handle the more-than-one-instance-of-Word issue. I don't post scripts here. Scripts as attachments are very frowned upon, even if they have a TXT extension, and code that can't be allowed to wrap usually gets wrapped by newsreaders if I include it in the body, making it worthless. So email me, to verify your address. Which brings up the subject that I neglected last time I responded to you. Using your real email address in newsgroups invites tons of SPAM, both the harmless but annoying kind and the very dangerous kind. Email addresses in public forums also get used as "From" addresses by bots that spread SPAM and viruses. You only know this is happening when you start getting Bounce notices regarding viruses in emails you never sent to people you don't know. It's too late, now, for the address you're using here, but your might want to consider changing your address and putting this one to rest. Newsgroup accounts permit using fake addresses. Trick is to not use one that *could_be* someone's real address. Take a look around at some of the other posts here for examples. Me, I use a real address so people can contact me via email if they really have to--but I use it *only* for NG posting and put up with the related inconvenience as a public service. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Larry" wrote in message ... Well, I almost never have two instances of Word open, so that's not an issue. But if there's a .vbs script to do this (bring focus to the Word window without opening a new instance of Word), I would love to find it. Larry Gary S. Terhune wrote: Would take a script to do that. Then make a shortcut to that, then assign a keystroke combo to that. Question: What does the Script do when there's two instances of Word open? "Larry" wrote in message ... 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? |
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"Larry" wrote in message
... Ok, I'll send you my e-mail address (but couldn't you just copy the code of the .vbs file into a news message?). Because most news readers wrap text to ~80 characters, and insert line returns. If a line ends up being 110 characters, it will wrap, and how will you know where it's wrapping, where to fix it, s? . As for using a fake address in the newsgroups, I thought I had changed it to a fake address some time back, but I guess it didn't take. I'll have to look again into how this is done using OE6. If your fake address is that one that shows above, then it isn't fake enough. Someone in this world might actually have larry328 at att.net as their real address. A proper munged address is one that is poorly formed--that can't possibly be a real address. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm |
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On the fake address, I've just redone it, by going into Tools, Accounts
and changing the e-mail address under the default news account. Hope that works. Larry "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... "Larry" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll send you my e-mail address (but couldn't you just copy the code of the .vbs file into a news message?). Because most news readers wrap text to ~80 characters, and insert line returns. If a line ends up being 110 characters, it will wrap, and how will you know where it's wrapping, where to fix it, s? . As for using a fake address in the newsgroups, I thought I had changed it to a fake address some time back, but I guess it didn't take. I'll have to look again into how this is done using OE6. If your fake address is that one that shows above, then it isn't fake enough. Someone in this world might actually have larry328 at att.net as their real address. A proper munged address is one that is poorly formed--that can't possibly be a real address. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm |
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Works fine--but if the previous was your real address, then its already
on tons of lists. If it was someone else's address, then you have apologies to make, s. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Larry" wrote in message ... On the fake address, I've just redone it, by going into Tools, Accounts and changing the e-mail address under the default news account. Hope that works. Larry "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... "Larry" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll send you my e-mail address (but couldn't you just copy the code of the .vbs file into a news message?). Because most news readers wrap text to ~80 characters, and insert line returns. If a line ends up being 110 characters, it will wrap, and how will you know where it's wrapping, where to fix it, s? . As for using a fake address in the newsgroups, I thought I had changed it to a fake address some time back, but I guess it didn't take. I'll have to look again into how this is done using OE6. If your fake address is that one that shows above, then it isn't fake enough. Someone in this world might actually have larry328 at att.net as their real address. A proper munged address is one that is poorly formed--that can't possibly be a real address. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm |
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No, it was my real address, but not my default address.
Gary S. Terhune wrote: Works fine--but if the previous was your real address, then its already on tons of lists. If it was someone else's address, then you have apologies to make, s. "Larry" wrote in message ... On the fake address, I've just redone it, by going into Tools, Accounts and changing the e-mail address under the default news account. Hope that works. Larry "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... "Larry" wrote in message ... Ok, I'll send you my e-mail address (but couldn't you just copy the code of the .vbs file into a news message?). Because most news readers wrap text to ~80 characters, and insert line returns. If a line ends up being 110 characters, it will wrap, and how will you know where it's wrapping, where to fix it, s? . As for using a fake address in the newsgroups, I thought I had changed it to a fake address some time back, but I guess it didn't take. I'll have to look again into how this is done using OE6. If your fake address is that one that shows above, then it isn't fake enough. Someone in this world might actually have larry328 at att.net as their real address. A proper munged address is one that is poorly formed--that can't possibly be a real address. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm |
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