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Christine is writing a macro and needs to figure out how many document windows are open. The traditional means of doing this is to use the Windows.Count property, in the following manner:
iNumWindows = Application.Windows.Count
When executed, iNumWindows will contain the number of open document windows in Word. The problem is that it returns a count of any window that Word may consider a document, even those that contain e-mails.
As far as we can determine, there is no way around this inclusive behavior of Word. If a person is using Word as their e-mail editor, and they open an e-mail or two, those windows are considered document windows by the program. Granted, they are not documents destined for a disk file or for the printer, but they are documents nonetheless.
In addition, there is no other flag that we could locate that would allow one to differentiate between a regular document window and an e-mail message window. If such a flag were available, then someone could easily check the windows and produce their own count of documents vs. e-mail messages.
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2014-09-19 10:33:09
Scott Renz
You would have to add two lines if you have and unnamed document.
And it would be different as well depending on if you want to count unnamed documents as documents.
Sub ShowWindowcounts()
Dim w As Windows
Set w = Application.Windows
n = 0
For i = 1 To w.Count
If InStrRev(w.Item(i).Caption, ".") > 0 Then
If LCase(Mid(w.Item(i).Caption, InStrRev(w.Item(i).Caption, "."), 4)) = ".doc" Then n = n + 1
End If
Next i
MsgBox ("You have " & n & " open document windows out of " & w.Count & " windows total.")
Set w = Nothing
End Sub
Sub ShowWindowcounts()
Dim w As Windows
Set w = Application.Windows
n = 0
For i = 1 To w.Count
If InStrRev(w.Item(i).Caption, ".") = 0 Then
n = n + 1
ElseIf LCase(Mid(w.Item(i).Caption, InStrRev(w.Item(i).Caption, "."), 4)) = ".doc" Then n = n + 1
End If
Next i
MsgBox ("You have " & n & " open document windows out of " & w.Count & " windows total.")
Set w = Nothing
End Sub
2014-09-19 10:19:39
Scott Renz
You could make a macro something like this:
Sub ShowWindowcounts()
Dim w As Windows
Set w = Application.Windows
n = 0
For i = 1 To w.Count
If LCase(Mid(w.Item(i).Caption, InStrRev(w.Item(i).Caption, "."), 4)) = ".doc" Then n = n + 1
Next i
MsgBox ("You have " & n & " open document windows out of " & w.Count & " windows total.")
Set w = Nothing
End Sub
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