There is a property called Saved on the Document object that is read write, you could ask the question;

If Doc.Saved = false then Do you want to save Changes?

If Yes then Cleanup Doc -> Doc.Save -> Doc.Saved= true

If the above is in the event then the solution will not prompt the user if the Saved property is suitably set.

Regards

You don't say whether you are writing a VSTO Addin or Template but the events you have mentioned for DocumentBeforeClose is the only event on the ApplicationClass that can be caught to clean up. What type of objects are you wishing to clean?

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I am writing an addin. But I am not looking for an application class event. I am looking for any way to catch a document (or window) after it was closed (or at a point that when the document/window has already been closed, or there is no way to stop it from closing). I have a dictionary with entries for each document, elements should be removed once a document/window is closed.

Thanks for the comment, hope this clears up the issue...

Tal

There is an event DocumentBeforeClose of the Application that you could trap to put your clean up code inplace.

Regards

Hi, thanks,

But there is a problem with this solution.

The problem with "DocumentBeforeClose" (as I mentioned above) is that if the document is dirty, then the event is raised before the "Do you want to save the document before leaving? Yes/No/Cancel". Therefore if I do the clean up there, and the user chooses "cancel", the cleanup has been done yet the document stays open. This is something I cannot allow.
Thanks for the answer though =)


Tal

There is a property called Saved on the Document object that is read write, you could ask the question;

If Doc.Saved = false then Do you want to save Changes?

If Yes then Cleanup Doc -> Doc.Save -> Doc.Saved= true

If the above is in the event then the solution will not prompt the user if the Saved property is suitably set.

Regards

I was trying to avoid this workaround, since this might change the look / feel of word. But if there is no other option, then thanks =).
To complete this question, is there a way (given a reference to a document / window) to check whether it is still open?

Tal

I have just had to do the same thing. The simple solution I found was to try and retrieve a property from the Document object. If this succeeds, then the document is still open. Otherwise, it is closed.