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I have wrote a program to manage Word documents. They can make new ones in this program but i give the file its own name & extension so they can only be changed, viewed,... by Word through the program. Is there a way to start Word without the possibility to Save As & New, because then i don't have the control over them anymore. Does anybody know what to do?
 
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I have wrote a program to manage Word documents. They can
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make new ones in this program but i give the file its own
name & extension so they can only be changed, viewed,...
by Word through the program. Is there a way to start Word
without the possibility to Save As & New, because then i
don't have the control over them anymore. Does anybody
know what to do?
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Tell us why you want to exert this level of control. It
is difficult to comment without knowing about that, but if
you are trying to do something like using Word to log
information you would do much better to use a program
designed for that.
 
I'm a programmer and we make a program that gives the possibility to use Word, but manage all the documents by our program. And if I open a document and I have the possibility to save the document under another name at another place, the control would be lost. This program is used in companies with up to 20 people together working and using it our way they can look up documents real fast and not having the problem I adjusted something at my PC, but which should have been on the network. Is this what you wanted to know?
 
Not quite sure I understand yet, but I think you might
want to use add-ins. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.
htm for more information. Add-ins allow for customization
of menus. They will need to be installed on every
workstation, although maybe there is a way workgroup
templates (everybody shares templates from a network
location) could be used. The trouble with either option
is that users will have the customizations in all cases,
which could be a problem if they ever need to use Word
independently of your program. One more thought is that
maybe the default Save location could be changed. Any
customizations are made at Tools > Options, and must be
made (as far as I know) at every workstation.
-----Original Message-----
I'm a programmer and we make a program that gives the
Click to expand...
possibility to use Word, but manage all the documents by
our program. And if I open a document and I have the
possibility to save the document under another name at
another place, the control would be lost. This program is
used in companies with up to 20 people together working
and using it our way they can look up documents real fast
and not having the problem I adjusted something at my PC,
but which should have been on the network. Is this what
you wanted to know?
 
In the program we wrote, we give the users the opportunity to manage their Word & Excel documents through our program. This way the security is going far, because if they login our program and they aren't allowed to use this part of the program or aren't allowed to see certain documents, we make sure they can't. But they still can startup Word by the shortcuts Microsoft made. When we import a file called Finances.doc, it is changed into 27548453.ext for example. So the administrators of those companies can keep control easily, but if I open it and say new or save as, we can't control those documents, that's why we would like to open Word without the possibility to make a new document or save it under another name. I have see options like "...Winword.exe" /n for starting Word without automatically make a new document. And I was wondering if there are more options like those, to disable the new button and save as possibility. Because with add-ins we have to deliver them to all our clients, and i don't know if they'l' be happy with that option. I'll take a look at making an add-in anyway, but if you have more suggestions i'll be happy to hear about them.

Thanks a lot already
 
I kept hoping somebody else would jump in here. I am only
sugesting a few things that might work, but I am starting
to get out of my element with this. Perhaps one of the
VBA forums might offer something. Good luck.
-----Original Message-----
In the program we wrote, we give the users the
Click to expand...
opportunity to manage their Word & Excel documents through
our program. This way the security is going far, because
if they login our program and they aren't allowed to use
this part of the program or aren't allowed to see certain
documents, we make sure they can't. But they still can
startup Word by the shortcuts Microsoft made. When we
import a file called Finances.doc, it is changed into
27548453.ext for example. So the administrators of those
companies can keep control easily, but if I open it and
say new or save as, we can't control those documents,
that's why we would like to open Word without the
possibility to make a new document or save it under
another name. I have see options like "...Winword.exe" /n
for starting Word without automatically make a new
document. And I was wondering if there are more options
like those, to disable the new button and save as
possibility. Because with add-ins we have to deliver them
to all our clients, and i don't know if they'l' be happy
with that option. I'll take a look at making an add-in
anyway, but if you have more suggestions i'll be happy to
hear about them.
 
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