WD2000: How to Keep OnEntry Macro from Running at Document Open (201995)

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The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro tests to see whether, upon the execution of the macro, the document's Open event has triggered the OnEntry macro.

   Sub OnEntry()

      Dim sOpenStatus As String
      ' An error occurs the first time this macro is
      ' run because the document variable does not yet exist,
      ' so we just resume to the next line (the If...Then...Else
      ' statement).
      On Error Resume Next

      ' Get the value of the document variable DocOpen,
      ' and put the value into the string variable sOpenStatus.
      sOpenStatus = ActiveDocument.Variables("DocOpen")

      If sOpenStatus = "" Then

         ' On the first run of this macro, the value of
         ' sOpenStatus will be Null because it does not
         ' yet exist, so we create the document variable and
         ' set the value to "Already Open."
         ActiveDocument.Variables.Add Name:="DocOpen", _
            Value:="Already Open"

      ElseIf sOpenStatus = "Just Opened" Then

         ' If the value of the document variable equals "Just Opened,"
         ' do not run the other code section of this macro
         ' and make the document variable equal "Already Open."
         ActiveDocument.Variables("DocOpen").Value = "Already Open"

      Else

         ' Other code section runs ONLY if the variable
         ' sOpenStatus equals "Already Open." Place your
         ' code here that you want to run only when the
         ' form field is tabbed to or clicked on.

         '<<< Your OnEntry Code Goes Here >>>

      End If

   End Sub
				

This macro must be used in combination with the OnEntry macro to set the document variable DocOpen to "Just Opened", so the next time the document is opened, the other code section of the OnEntry macro included earlier in this article does not run.

   Sub AutoClose()

      ' This sets the value to "Just Opened", so
      ' the next time the document is opened,
      ' the other code does not run.
      ActiveDocument.Variables("DocOpen").Value = "Just Opened"

   End Sub