WD2000: ActiveWindow.Visible Property Causes Word to Appear to Stop Responding

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you manipulate the Visible property of the Visual Basic for Applications ActiveWindow property to hide a document, as in ActiveWindow.Visible = False, Word appears to stop responding when you close the document.

For example, the following procedure demonstrates this behavior:

Sub HideDoc()
    Documents.Add                              ' Add new document.
    ActiveWindow.Visible = False               ' Hide document.
    Selection.TypeText "This is a document."   ' Insert text.
    ActiveWindow.Visible = True                ' Show document.
End Sub 

1. On the File menu, click Close.



2. Click No to the Save Changes prompt.

CAUSE

Word is in a state in which the toolbars have not been properly activated.

RESOLUTION

To work around the problem of Word appearing to stop responding, start another instance of Word. You can then perform further actions in Word.

To resolve the problem of setting the Visible property of the ActiveWindow, causing Word to appear to stop responding, use one of the following sample procedures as a substitute:

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Sub HideDoc1()
    Dim oDoc As Document
    Set oDoc = Documents.Add                      ' Create new document.
    With oDoc.ActiveWindow
        .Visible = False                          ' Hide the document.
        .Selection.TypeText "This is a document." ' Insert text.
        .Visible = True                           ' Show the document.
    End With
End Sub 

Sub HideDoc2()
    Documents.Add                                 ' Create new document.
    With ActiveWindow
        .Visible = False                          ' Hide the document.
        .Selection.TypeText "This is a document." ' Insert text.
        .Visible = True                           ' Show the document.
    End With
End Sub 

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: vba

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: June 15, 1999