When you write Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macros or routines, you may need to test whether another process already opened a file before you perform any operations on the file. This article contains a sample macro and function to test the current access status of a file or document.
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Sub YourMacro()
Dim strFileName As String
' Full path and name of file.
strFileName = "C:\test.doc"
' Call function to test file lock.
If Not FileLocked(strFileName) Then
' If the function returns False, open the document.
Documents.Open strFileName
End If
End Sub
Function FileLocked(strFileName As String) As Boolean
On Error Resume Next
' If the file is already opened by another process,
' and the specified type of access is not allowed,
' the Open operation fails and an error occurs.
Open strFileName For Binary Access Read Write Lock Read Write As #1
Close #1
' If an error occurs, the document is currently open.
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
' Display the error number and description.
MsgBox "Error #" & Str(Err.Number) & " - " & Err.Description
FileLocked = True
Err.Clear
End If
End Function
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