Task Object

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Represents a single task running on the system. The Task object is a member of the Tasks collection. The Tasks collection includes all the applications that are currently running on the system.

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Use Tasks(Index), where Index is the application name or the index number, to return a single Task object. The following example switches to and resizes the application window for the first visible task in the Tasks collection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With Tasks(1)
    If .Visible = True Then
        .Activate
        .Width = 400
        .Height = 200
    End If
End With

The following example restores the Calculator application window if Calculator is in the Tasks collection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  If Tasks.Exists("Calculator") = True Then
    Tasks("Calculator").WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal
End If

Use Visual Basic's Shell function to run an executable program and add the program to the Tasks collection.

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