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The method Application.ShowMe from Office-Automation is deprecated. With the last Microsoft Update the call of this method results with 0x800A1088.

Is there a fallback for Application.ShowMe() ? or is it sufficient to set the property "Visible" to True ?

thanks

I just set the property "Visible" to True.

Eugene Astafiev
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To make the Word application visible you need set the Application.Visible property to true.

Application.Visible = True

There is no other fallback mechanism. That is enough for making Word visible.

Also you may find the Window.Activate method helpful. It activates the specified window. The Window object is a member of the Windows collection. The Windows collection for the Application object contains all the windows in the application, whereas the Windows collection for the Document object contains only the windows that display the specified document.

Use Windows(Index), where Index is the window name or the index number, to return a single Window object. For example, the following example maximizes the Document1 window:

Windows("Document1").WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize
Eugene Astafiev
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  • Thanks for your answer. I have developed some codelines many years ago and was surprised that the method `Application.ShowMe` has been deprecated by Microsoft. It is sufficient to set the property `Visible = True`, but what was the purpose of the method `ShowMe` ? Unfortunatly, there ist no old documention of the Application-Object online. – Karsten Reimers Nov 03 '22 at 14:05