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Excel has an hwnd property under Excel.Application. I do not believe Word does, so I think you're limited to API calls that you want to avoid.
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Excel has an hwnd property under Excel.Application. I do not believe Word does, so I think you're limited to API calls that you want to avoid.

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Ooops sorry - posted a suggestion using FindWindow... read the Q on my phone so missed that. &nbsp;<br />
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Anyway, appreciate that Find Window can have many windows with the same name. &nbsp;I guess you could find the first instance of the window (change the name) then look for a 2nd instance and so on... you could also, presumably, interrogate the object for some other known properties?
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Ooops sorry - posted a suggestion using FindWindow... read the Q on my phone so missed that.  

Anyway, appreciate that Find Window can have many windows with the same name.  I guess you could find the first instance of the window (change the name) then look for a 2nd instance and so on... you could also, presumably, interrogate the object for some other known properties?

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Suppose you have VB6 connected to a created Word document, or as a Word add-in, or from VBA, anyway, you have access to the Word.Application and Word.Document objects.<br />
How to get a handle to the Word document window , but without using something like FindWindow and then searching for a window with a specific title or class name? Does Word expose it somewhere? I don't trust in FindWindow, as several documents can have the same document title/caption...
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Suppose you have VB6 connected to a created Word document, or as a Word add-in, or from VBA, anyway, you have access to the Word.Application and Word.Document objects.
How to get a handle to the Word document window , but without using something like FindWindow and then searching for a window with a specific title or class name? Does Word expose it somewhere? I don't trust in FindWindow, as several documents can have the same document title/caption...

How to get a handle to a Word document window?

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