I have made a program that it has a button with which it opens Microsoft Word and it writes some data in it . Well , the first time it does that thing there is no problem . However , if I close Word and then press again the specific button which opens Word and writes the data , then my program crashes and returns an error saying :

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Run time error '462' : The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable .

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Hi
THe first problem indicates that your pointer to the WordApplication is destroyed - this happens when you use "set wordapplication = GetObject" or "set wordapplicatino = CreateObject " then someone closes word, then you attempt to resuse the wordapplciation without rerunning the  getobject or createobject code.
You cannot modify an activedocument if there is no document open (you will get a similar problem to the above)
Pagesettings only work if you have a printer installed (and you have an activedocument open in word).
I suggest that you run your application to open word, then BEFORE YOU CLOSE WORD open the taskmanager, look in the processes tab for WinWord.exe, then close word (leave taskamanger open), now, how many winword.exe's do you have running?
I suspect it's either zero (your error 462 will occur if its zero) or one (your activedocument will fail)

Don't let the user close word whilst you have a WordApplication pointer that you expect to be connected to word. Let the user see the document after you have finished.
ie.

set objword = new word.application set objdoc = objword.documents.open "c:fred.doc" objdoc.inserttext "mooooo" objdoc.save objdoc.close set objdoc = nothing objword.quit set objword= nothing if msgbox("Want to see the document?",vbQuestion or vbYesNo) = vbyes then   shellexecute "c:fred.doc",1 end if

Hope this helps
Kieron


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