Application.Documents Property

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Returns a Documents collection that represents all the open documents. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.Documents

expression   A variable that represents an Application object.

Remarks

For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.

Example

This example creates a new document based on the Normal template and then displays the Save As dialog box.

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  Documents.Add.Save

This example saves open documents that have changed since they were last saved.

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  Dim docLoop As Document

For Each docLoop In Documents
If docLoop.Saved = False Then docLoop.Save
Next docLoop

This example prints each open document after setting the left and right margins to 0.5 inch.

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  Dim docLoop As Document

For Each docLoop In Documents
With docLoop
.PageSetup.LeftMargin = InchesToPoints(0.5)
.PageSetup.RightMargin = InchesToPoints(0.5)
.PrintOut
End With
Next docLoop

This example opens Doc.doc as a read-only document.

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    Documents.Open FileName:="C:\Files\Doc.doc", ReadOnly:=True

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