Send keypress to error messages on opening Word document - vb.net

Question

I am having some problems on sending key strokes to an error message while opening a document.
The document I am trying to open in a Word for Dos 5.5 document that is missing the style sheet, you can manually click ignore and the file opens, but I have 1000+ more file to do this with so i want to automate this.
I am opening this document up in either Office XP, 2003 or 2010 but i cant get the keystrokes to affect the messages.
The code I have been attempting is as follows:
Dim objWord As New Word.Application
Dim objDoc As New Word.Document
objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open(TempDir + ("\\" + fileInf.Name))
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
SendKeys.Send("{Enter}")
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
SendKeys.Send("{&I}")
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
objWord.WindowState = Word.WdWindowState.wdWindowStateNormal
objWord.Visible = True
I have used the visible = true just to see what i going on, but the messages just sit there.

Answer 1

I think sending keyPress is not the best solution for your problem, and this is something you should avoid if you can.
You could instead try to hide Word messages. Possible ways:
Try to disable messages using Application.DisplayAlerts property before you open the file. So it would be:
objWord.DisplayAlerts = Word.WdAlertLevel.wdAlertsNone
Important note from MSDN :
If you set this property to wdAlertsNone or wdAlertsMessageBox,
Microsoft Word doesn't set it back to wdAlertsAll when execution
stops. You should write your code in such a way that it always sets
the DisplayAlerts property back to wdAlertsAll when it stops running.
Try to disable messages by setting other parameters of the Documents.Open method. I am thinking to the Format paramater that you could try to set to wdOpenFormatAllWord to see if it disables messages.
wdOpenFormatAllWord: A Microsoft Word format that is backward compatible with earlier versions of Microsoft Word.
When you write SendKeys.Send("{Enter}"), I guess you have System.Windows.Forms namespace imported so it is equal to System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("{Enter}").
In my first answer I have suggested, If you really need to use the SendKeys method, to use the one from Excel.Application. (because I was needing coffee..., I was totally focused on Excel although the question was about Word).
Unfortunately, the method is present In Excel but there is NO SendKeys Method in Word.Application Object.