how to reference already open word document

so i got some code in a workbook that opens a word document to use it as template to produce a mail body out of it.

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This code works fine except in case that the required word document is already opened by the user. in this case i get command failed on the last line

i tried adding error handling + the last line

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where mailbodyTemplate is a file name like "myworddocument.docx"

but in this case i get bad file name on the last line as wrdApp is empty of documents!

seems that Set wrdApp even though it complains that the file is already open, does not contain the open file?

any ideas how to get a referance to the already opened specific word document?

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thx for your reply!

i adjusted the code a bit to also face a second problem but yea the core of what you provided was correct. it seems that every time the code did not complete i remained with open/hiden word instances and that also caused part of the problem. so now...

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According to VBA help - a must read ! - you can directly use GetObject with the file full path-name rather than the application
which links to the already opened document or if closed just opens it ...

you are correct, but would i be able to readonly open this way?
also, i would still need to know if wordapp and worddoc were already open or not so as to leave them in their prior state. if i do it automaticaly only with

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how would i know?

I don't think so, according to VBA help ...