Eventenable equivalent for Word

[NobodysPerfect]

Hi,

I'm desperately looking for an equivalent for Excel's Application.Eventenable method.



I'd be really happy if anybody could help.

thx

[fumei]

AFAIK Word does not have this.

[NobodysPerfect]

Seems to be so.

But is there any workaround to pause an event for a specific time?

[fumei]

Look up WithEvents. It may or may not be of help. Unfortunately Word has few events that are actually accessible.

[NobodysPerfect]

Sorry, but WithEvents, there is nothing to look up, I did not know before.

I tried the msdn developper sites, but I can't find anything.

I mean, there must be other vba programmers who wish to pause a firing event. So what do they do ? If there were no need, Excel wouldn't supply the EventsEnable method ...

[fumei]

Well, I did not think WithEvents would help, but thought I might mention it anyway. As for the difference between Excel and Word, yes the lack of event control in Word has been a complaint going back a long time.

For what it is worth, IMO this stems from a systemic difference in the long term dedication of the Excel application team versus the Word team. I have long suspected that the Word team has quite a bit more rotation of people. It just has never seemed like Excel had the number of frankly stupid things that Word seemed to have. For sure serious Excel users and developers never seem to complain to the level that Word users and developers complain.

Plus the inherent difference in the applications themselves. Excel has a deeply basic requirement to make sense and function logically. Word just needs to appear to do so. For the record I am a long time heavy Word developer. I am only a lightweight Excel user.

[NobodysPerfect]

Originally Posted by fumei

For what it is worth, IMO this stems from a systemic difference in the long term dedication of the Excel application team versus the Word team. I have long suspected that the Word team has quite a bit more rotation of people. It just has never seemed like Excel had the number of frankly stupid things that Word seemed to have. For sure serious Excel users and developers never seem to complain to the level that Word users and developers complain.

Your are 100% right !!! Excel indeed is the more logical and stringent progam. In Excel you do not have to worry about the program's functionality itself, just about which feature to use/program.

Just to come to the Word developers' defense: of course it is easier to be logical within a calculation program than within floating text, but neverthless ...

So my issue remains open.

Have a nice day (here in Germany it is 8:37 AM, so 'nice day' is OK)