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How can I automatically close a word dialog box?

Tags: Visual Basic 6 / VBA
Hi Experts,

I'm testing a Word add-in with a script that runs it for lots and lots of documents.  It does it like this:


Dim fso As Object, fld As Object, fil As Object
Dim WasOpen As Boolean
Dim d As Document
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set fld = fso.GetFolder("E:\My Documents\")

For Each fil In fld.Files
        If UCase(Right(fil.Name, 4)) = ".DOC" Then
            On Error Resume Next
            Set d = Documents(fil.Name)
            If Err <> 0 Then
                Err.Clear
                WasOpen = False
                Set d = Documents.Open(fil.Path)
            Else
                WasOpen = True
            End If
            d.Activate
         
            Set doctesting = Application.ActiveDocument
            If doctesting.ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
           
                Load UserForm
                UserForm.Show
               
                Call UserForm.StartButton_Click
                  etc
             
However, sometimes the script is interrupted by a Word dialog that comes up before the script reaches reaches call. 'startbutton_click.  Specifically, two dialogs sometimes get in the way:
- If the document is password protected then there is a dialog to enter the password or click 'read only'
- A dialog box that says "Problem During Load" - Missing file: etc.  And you need to click 'ok'

Neither comes up very often - but when they do, the whole script is interrupted... so I can lose hours of testing time before I find out.  Is there any way to automatically answer 'read only' if the password protection one comes up or 'ok' if the problem during load comes up?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Cheers,

PatternNut
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Zone: Programming
Question Asked By: PatternNut
Solution Provided By: GrahamSkan
Participating Experts: 2
Solution Grade: A
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Nice one Graham, this worked the charm.

Thank you,

PatternNut
 
 
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