Word automation : how to bring the document to the front ?

With the following lines I can open a Word document in automation mode:

hComServer = actxserver('Word.Application');
hComServer.Visible = 1;
hComServer.Documents.Open('c:\foo.doc');

but I can't figure out how to bring the window to the front ....

Answer 1

[p fontaine]

It seems that Windows prevents from such a focus stealing by default so as to defeat annoying adware ...

A solution can be to set the windows registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ForegroundLockTimeout

to a decimal value of 0

then calling

hComServer.Activate

now activates and brings the window to the front but sometimes several calls seem to be necessary

(NB : reboot required after registry modification)

Answer 2

[Jan]

Does this work:

hComServer.Visible = 1

or

hComServer.Activate

?

[EDITED]: Perhaps:

oDoc = hComServer.Documents.Open('c:\foo.doc');
oDoc.Activate;

Or:

hComServer.ActiveWindow.Activate();

You can use "methods(hComServer)" to inspect the possibilities.

[p fontaine]

unfortunately no ...

hComServer.Visible = 1 makes the Word Window visible

hComServer.Activate activates the window

but none of this commands bring the Word window to the front ......

[Jan]

Is there a command to get the hWnd of the Word Window? I do not use the Microsoft Office on my Matlab computer, because I need it for serious work, such that I cannot test this. ;-)