In Microsoft Word VBA can I tell that a user has cancelled a save? For example, a user clicks to close a document. Word asks the user to save. The user cancels. How do I detect this cancel?
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VBA how to detect cancelled save (Word 2000 +)
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 13, 2008 at 8:16 am #1128889I am looking to find a list of Windows Application and Document events such as WindowActivate, WindowSelectionChange but the help doesn’t give it to me in list form. I was going to test these. Our problem is that someone on VBA code is setting a flag that a user is closing Word, and this flag is not reset when the user cancels this event.
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WSHansV
AskWoody LoungerOctober 13, 2008 at 8:27 am #1128891You can use the Object Browser for this – press F2 in the Visual Basic Editor to activate it.
Or see Application Object, Document Object and Window Object (the latter has no events).
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 13, 2008 at 8:36 am #1128893I just did a “Public WithEvents WordApp As Word.Application” in the ThisDocument VBA Code area and they show up. I tried all of them to see if a Cancel was returned and I only get the Document Close() event firing. Wow. I guess there isn’t the granularity there that’s needed. There has to be though. I did try Window_Activate, but there is no guarantee that the application window will be activated following a Cancel.
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 13, 2008 at 9:31 am #1128904Thanks for the input. However this will not work as we take over the DocumentBeforeSave event to handle saving ourselves. The order is “DocumentBeforeClose” sets the IsClosing flag to true. The user cancels and IsClosing is set to true (it shouldn’t now be as the user canceled). Eventually Word’s automatic AutoSave method fires to call the DocumentBeforeSave event. DocumentBeforeSave thinks the document or application is closing, but it is not!
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 13, 2008 at 9:02 am #1128899You want to detect the cancel so you can prevent the document from closing? You could try this event: DocumentBeforeClose Event [Word 2007 Developer Reference]and check for Doc.Saved=False.
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 14, 2008 at 2:21 am #1128952I don’t know if you have this luxury, but one approach that comes to mind is to “hijack” the FileSave command.
The code below will display the Save As… dialog box. If the user clicks “Cancel,” it displays a Message Box; otherwise, it saves the file.
Sub FileSave()
Dim mySaveDialog As Dialog, myAnswer As Integer
Set mySaveDialog = Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs)
myAnswer = mySaveDialog.Show
If myAnswer = 0 Then MsgBox “The file was not saved.”, vbInformation + vbOKOnly, “FileSaveAs Test”
End SubNote that, because this sub is named FileSave, it forces the Save As… dialog box to appear every time the user clicks the Save button or chooses File: Save (which seemed to be in keeping with your needs, since that’s the only time one would have the option of clicking on a Cancel button.) I guess one could name it FileSaveAs, in which case it would only appear when the user selected File: Save As…, but it wouldn’t run when the user is saving a file for the very first time, at least not without customizing the toolbars and menus.
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