7. Working with Word Events

Events in the Word Object Model

Understanding the events in the Word object model is critical because this is often the primary way that your code is run. This chapter covers all the events in the Word object model, when they are raised, and the type of code you might associate with these events.

Some of the events in the Word object model are repeated on the Application and Document objects. This repetition allows you to decide whether you want to handle the event for all documents or for a particular document. For example, if you want to know when any document is closed, you would handle the Application object’s DocumentBeforeClose event. If you want to know when a particular document is closed, you would handle ...

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