Re: code to copy files

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From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 02/13/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:34:43 -0600

This is better done in the (Windows?) network login script. That will be
executed before Word is loaded. Put your Add-In in a network folder (not the
Workgroup Templates folder!) to which users have read-only access. The
script should automatically copy it to the local startup folder each time
the user logs into the network - if the network copy is newer than the
stored copy. I don't know how to write these scripts, just know they exist.
In a batch file, the DOS XCOPY or XXCOPY commands can handle this easily. 

-- 
Charles Kenyon
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"zSplash" <zNOSPAMSplash@ gci.net> wrote in message
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> MyAddin is stored on a server, but is copied to an Addin directory on each
> PC.  I want to be able to copy MyAddin using VBA code, but when I try to
do
> it using the VB editor, everything I do when I minimize the Word app is
> "ignored".  (I always cheat and use the editor to "get the hang" of what
I'm
> trying to code.)
>
> In olden times, I woulda written a shell script, made it executable, and
> then just executed it.  Can I do something similarly in VBA code?
>
> TIA
>
>

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