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jarredm007 · Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 1

Hello, I am trying to automate creating a word document that is named "2010-03-08 - Doe John.doc". Then it will open that document and input a template of text. I have this so far, but after inputbox comes up, the explorer folder I am in changes behind the text box to the desktop in an explorer window; so the file created is put on the desktop. I need it to be created in the folder I start the script in.

Here is what I have:

Murx · Guest

Regardless that Desktop is used as the default file destination it's possible to set a path at the edit field of the an SaveAs dialog and it should save the file at your favorite target destination.

Another option (AFAIK) is to change the registry to open a dialog with another default destination. But that might be over the top here.

jethrow · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 1907 Location: Iowa, USA

Prolly not newbie friendly, but here's an example using COM ( AHKL & COM_L ):

flyingDman · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject:

More newbie friendly:

sinkfaze · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:05 pm Post subject:

flyingDman · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject:

Works for me on Vista and Office 2007. BTW iIt does not work with Excel if a CSV extension is used.
Any luck with a "sleep" between the fileappend and the run?
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flyingDman · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject:

@sinkfaze:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors&tid=28597190-67e9-46f2-9d46-4e4e3f041f6b&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1

and

http://blogs.technet.com/wordonenotesupport/archive/2009/12/10/when-opening-the-word-document-users-are-getting-error-word-cannot-start-the-convertor-mswrd632-wpc-or-cannot-load-word-for-windows-6-0-files.aspx
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sinkfaze · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately editing the registry is not an option for me. Nonetheless, it opens the doc eventually but the potential for error messages isn't very friendly.
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flyingDman · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:37 pm Post subject:

Yet another Microsoft quirk ...
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