Disable Application Window Min, Max & Close

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Word 97 (SR2) on Win95/98

This post relates ever so slightly to my previous post (#31633) and relates to my efforts to stop Word asking my users to save normal.dot and a global add-in on exit/quit.

Previously, I’ve always used an AutoExit() macro to trigger an event that sets the NormalTemplate.Saved (and/or Templates(pathglobal.dot).Saved) property to True. This event never triggers when users use the application window close button (the X, up there on the right) to Exit Word though.

I popped over to the Word VBA newsgroup and was pointed to an excellent article at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AppClassEvents.htm

Unfortuantly, creating this Class Module and declaring an oApp_Quit event procedure does exactly the same as an AutoExit() and, most importantly, it fires after any

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Also, you may want to run a search on the word “disable” at http://www.vbcode.com. They may have something which disables the application window’s close feature. However, I do think that Lawrence’s suggestion of making the globals read-only is the more practical solution, and going a step further to making the folder read-only to prevent users from adding templates without IT Management’s review and approval.

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Thanks for the reply. Some useful pointers that I’ll investigate further; vbcode.com does have some code, some relating to API calls and some to VB forms. I’ll see where they take me.

Thanks again,

Ade

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Thanks for getting back also! As you suggest, Word shouldn’t be changing the global add-in from just the operation of the program, but it is.

A simple fire up of Word and then an immediate shut-down via close X window button prompts to save global.dot. Strange? I’ll have to check my code to see if its doing something odd.

Thanks for the pointers.

Ade

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