How to react to Microsoft Word events?

Question

My program runs Microsoft Word (setting "ws" = Word). I can issue commands to Word, but can I also react to Word events? I set ws to be "withevents" but that didn't seem to make wd's events available to my program.
Robert Homes

Answer 1

Hi Robert,
Based on the descrption, you want to subscribe the event for Word using VB.Net. Are you writing an Word automation application?
If I understood correctly, it is similar as use other event in VB.Net and here is an sample that add an document_Open event for the Word application for your reference:
Imports Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
Class TestWordEvent
Private WithEvents wordAppEvent As Word.Application
Public Sub NewDocument()
Dim wordApp As New Word.Application
wordAppEvent = wordApp
wordApp.Visible = True
wordApp.Documents.Open("C:\users\UserName\desktop\doc1.docx")
End Sub
Private Sub Document_Open(ByVal Doc As Word.Document) Handles wordAppEvent.DocumentOpen
MsgBox("")
End Sub
End Class
Also you can get more events about Word applicaiton from link below:
Application Events (Word)
Regards & Fei
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