Activate Word without starting new Word instance

There are LOTS of keyboard mappers out there. It seems to me, from your last
post, that is what you want. A single keystroke to get back to Word.

Trying to do this with ONE keystroke (not some Ctrl-keycharacter,
Alt-keycharacter combination - not much different from using Alt-Tab, or your
mouse) via code...well, no offence, but it seems, especially with the amount
of keystrokes written into this thread, a large amount of work for little
return.

Find a key mapper.

"Larry" wrote:

All I really want is to be able, using a single keystroke not the mouse,
to bring the focus to the already open Word window. Not using Alt+Tab,
not using the Mouse to click on the task bar button, but to use a
keystroke that perhaps runs a .vbs file that makes the open Word
instance the active window.

I'm constantly going back and forth between Word and other application
windows, and I want an instant, keyboard-oriented, one-step way of
returning to the Word window.

Larry



Jonathan West wrote:
If you want to get hold of an existing instance of Word, then you
should use GetObject as Jezebel described to get an object reference
to it. Then you can use the Run method of the Word Application object
to run the macro.


"Larry" wrote in message
...


Thanks Jezebel.

Since it is possible from the Run dialog box to start Word and run a
macro in one step, I'm thinking that if, with Word open but not
active, I ran the macro I'm looking for, I could get a macro that
activated the open Word window without opening a second instance of
Word.

However, when I create a macro in Normal called WordActivate using
the code you suggested,

Dim wrdApp as object
On error resume next
Set wrdApp = GetObject("Word.Application")

and (with Word open but not active) run this in the Run dialog box:

Winword.exe /mWordActivate

A second instance of Word opens.

The same happens when I put the other set of code in WordActivate.

Any other ideas? Thanks much.

Larry




Jezebel wrote:
If you mean from VB, there are two methods --

1) Late binding

Dim wrdApp as object
On error resume next
Set wrdApp = GetObject("Word.Application")
If wrdApp is nothing then
.... Word was not running .... no instance to get


or 2) Early binding

Dim wrdApp as Word.Application
On error resume next
Set wrdApp = Word.Application
If wrdApp is nothing then
.... Word was not running .... no instance to get




"Larry" wrote in message
...
I would be great to find a way to activate Word without
starting a new Word instance. I think I asked about this a
year or two ago, and didn't get anywhere. Any ideas?