Activate Word window from Excel with VBA - vba

Question

I am trying access window of MS Word from Excel. I found methods to access a new Word document or a specific one, like the one at
Copy Text from Range in Excel into Word Document,
But in my case I do not know the name of the document, it should be the last active one. I was hoping to use something like
Word.ActiveDocument
but no success. I also tried to simulat Alt+Tab keystroke to activate the window with
Application.SendKeys("%{TAB}")
but it does not work too. Any hint?
I am trying to create a macro that will just copy charts and some text around to Word and do some formating of the text along with it. So basically I can use any approach to this task.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

You can access an open instance of Word by using late binding (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245115) and GetObject. If you have multiple instances of Word open you are not guaranteed of getting any one of them in particular though.
Getting an instance of Word will allow you to access the ActiveDocument or the Application's current Selection. I'd still suggest doing some error checking to make sure you've got what you want.
Sub GetWordDocument()
Dim wdApp As Object
'Turn off error handling since if the Application is not found we'll get an error
'Use Late Binding and the GetObject method to find any open instances of Word
On Error Resume Next
Set wdApp = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
On Error GoTo 0
'Check to see if we found an instance. If not you can create one if you desire
If wdApp Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "No instances of Word found"
Exit Sub
End If
'Check if there are documents in the found instance of Word
If wdApp.Documents.Count > 0 Then
wdApp.Selection.TypeText "Cool, we got it" & vbCr
'You can now access any of the active document properties too
wdApp.ActiveDocument.Range.InsertAfter "We did indeed"
End If
'Clean up the Object when Finished
Set wdApp = Nothing
End Sub