print document

THuynh
looks promising.... only doesn't there need to be a declare statement before it?

Heres the declare statement for the function and constants

Private Const SW_MAXIMIZE = 3
Private Const SW_MINIMIZE = 6
Private Const SW_NORMAL = 1

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

mhowling
after incorporating your declare statements
ShellExecute(Handle, "print", "c:\testfig.doc", Null, Null, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

comes back syntax error
any further suggestions?

Sorry about that leachim.

Okay the problem is with the Null's try replacing them with "" i.e

ShellExecute(Handle, "print", "c:\testfig.doc", "", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL)

ALTERNATIVELY
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Heres another way of doing it.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim WordObj As Object
   
    Set WordObj = GetObject("C:\testtemp\vbtest.doc")
   
    WordObj.Activate
    WordObj.PrintOut
   
    WordObj.Close
   
    Set WordObj = Nothing
End Sub

NOTE This is Late Binding.  It can be done with early binding if you want by setting the project to reference Microsoft Word x.0 then rewritting the above as

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim WordObj As New Document
   
    Set WordObj = WordObj.Application.Documents.Open("C:\TestTemp\vbtest.doc")

   
    WordObj.Activate
    WordObj.PrintOut
   
    WordObj.Close
   
    Set WordObj = Nothing
End Sub

These will print the document without the user ever realising that it has used Word.  Whereas the ShellExecute method opens word prints the document and then closes word again.

mhowling,

looks good, however, I have a question.

Will this work with just the application distributed files? (will it work if the workstation that this is distributed on doesn't have Word or doesn't have that version of Word?)

HERES THE ANSWER CURTESY OF SHANKARKUPRA


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