Opening an existing Word Document in Read/Write mode Using VB.NET

Opening an existing Word Document in Read/Write mode Using VB.NET

• Herk108

  A varible string is built up based upon the user selecting a row in a datagrid.

  I am using Visual Studio.NET 2003.

  pRegistrationNumber = pRegistrationNumber.Substring(0, 4) + pRegistrationNumber.Substring(5, 3).TrimEnd + ".DOC"

  pServiceLoad = pServiceHistoryFolder + pRegistrationNumber '+ ".DOC"

  appWord.Documents.Open(pServiceLoad)

  appWord.Visible = True

  
  

• project2n5e0o1

  Is the file on your disk read only, or is it opened by another user or another instance of Word already

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  SvenC

  
  

• RGrizzzz

  Hi Bill,

  good to hear. Please mark my answer as answer.

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  SvenC

  
  

• Michael J Brown

  Hi Bill,

  please show as the code you use to open the word document. Also: which version of word and visual studio do you use

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  SvenC

  
  

• MarcGBeauchamp

  Hi SvenC,

  Thanks for this. I had copied some Word documents from my Client and I didn't notice that they had a read-only attribute. All workin now thanks/

  
  

• DodgingRain

  Hi Bill,

  the third parameter of Open is a boolean specifing if you want write or readonly access. Try passing False as parameter.

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  SvenC

  
  

• Valst

  Hi SvenC,

  I have added the parameter as adivsed but it is still opening the document up in read only mode, code below:

  Any ideas

  appWord.Documents.Open(pServiceLoad, , False)

  appWord.Visible = True

  
  
• Opening an existing Word Document in Read/Write mode Using VB.NET