Office® XP Development with VBA

Events in Word

Part of the Office development model is the automatic detection of events. In Word, the events that are detected occur mostly at the level of the Application object, with a few that occur at the level of the Document object. If your application needs to respond to a particular event, all you need do is place the code in the corresponding event procedure. Then, it will be executed automatically when the event occurs. The fundamentals of events were covered in Chapter 4. In this section, I explain those events available in Word.

Document-Level Events

Document events are detected by individual documents. The event handlers are placed in a module associated with a specific document. If an event handler is placed in a template, then ...