Use of ShellExecute Method 1

[patelr]

Hi,

I want to launch a word application to print a document which does not have .DOC extension, although it is a word document. I have tried using ShellExecute method unsuccessfully.

Can anyone help????

Thanks in Advance

 

[zemp]

There are some other shell commands that allow you to specify which application to use. You may want to look into one of those. I believe the shellexecute API uses the windows file extention associations to determine which app to open the file with. Thanks and Good Luck!

zemp

 

[LlomaxX]

Try passing the name of the file to the word executable as the command line. I have Office 2000, and the path for the executable for Word is c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\winword.exe. So, to open a file in Word using the Shell command from VB, I used the following line:

Shell """C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE"" ""c:\My Documents\MyDocument"""


Pay attention to the quotes. The path for the executable and the path for the document both need to be in quotes, and since I'm passing the command line as a string, I have to have the whole thing in quotes, and use quote-quote everywhere a quotation mark should be in the command line.

Hope this helps!

 

[patelr]

Thank you for quick response.

Hwoever, I can launch word application and the document, but i am trying to print this document without user intervention.

 

[LlomaxX]

The only way I know to do that is to create an instance of the Word App inside of VB and manipulate it directly.

Set a reference to the Microsoft Word Object Library. Then you can create an instance of the app, open the file, and print it all from code, like so:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim WordApp As Word.Application

Set WordApp = New Word.Application

WordApp.Documents.Open "c:\MyDocument"
WordApp.PrintOut

End Sub

Hope this helps!

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Check out the ShellExecuteEx API with the action verb being "print". Just one caution: you will need to associate the extension of the file to the program you want to use.

Good Luck