Document Save Event

Question

Just like the way we have DocumentChange event

Example:
oWord.DocumentChange += new MSWord.ApplicationEvents4_DocumentChangeEventHandler(oWord_DocumentChange);

I also want to Capture an event that is fired when the document is saved ( It could be normal save or Save As) So which event will it be? There is an event named DocumentBeforeSave. But I want an event that is DocumentAfterSave which doesn't exist.

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Adeel

Answer 1

Yeah it would have saved me a ton of hassle if Word a DocumentAfterSave event.

There are workarounds, but they're not hassle free. Probably the easiest is to handle the DocumentBeforeSave event, cancel the save (assuming you're doing this from within an AddIn), and instead save it with your own command, after which you can enact more code.

You need to couch this with a global (or class level) 'ignore' bool, so when you enact a save it won't get trapped, endlessly saving....something like:

bool allowSave = false;

BeforeSaveEvent(Document doc, ref bool cancel)

{

  if (!allowSave)

  {

    // Before save code

    allowSave = true;

   doc.Save();

    // After save code

    allowSave = false;

    cancel = true; // Stop Word doing its normal save: we have already saved the document

  }

}

Answer 2

Can you suggest me some trick in this case? Because if I use this code DocumentBeforeSaveAs...

void oWord_DocumentBeforeSave(MSWord.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
{
      File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
      Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
      ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");
}

Now when a user want to save this document as .ODT the above code should enable the button the moment it encounters extension to be .ODT. But the problem is the above mentioned code is executed BEFORE the save as dialog box where the user choose .ODT format for saving the file. So in this case it will never enable the button the moment .ODT document that was saved is loaded by default.

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Adeel

Answer 3

I think you want:

bool allowSave = false;

void oWord_DocumentBeforeSave(MSWord.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
{
  if (!allowSave)

  {
    allowSave = true;

    Doc.Save();

    File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
    Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
    ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");

    allowSave = false;

    Cancel = true; // Stop Word doing its normal save: we have already saved the document

  }
}

Answer 4

I think you want:

bool allowSave = false;

void oWord_DocumentBeforeSave(MSWord.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
{
  if (!allowSave)

  {
    allowSave = true;

    Doc.Save();

    File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
    Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
    ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");

    allowSave = false;

    Cancel = true; // Stop Word doing its normal save: we have already saved the document

  }
}

Thanks. This is perfect the only thing that is missing is ...

void oWord_DocumentBeforeSave(MSWord.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
{
     if (!bAllowSave)
     {
           bAllowSave = true;
           Doc.Save();

           File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
           Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
           ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");

           bAllowSave = false;
           Cancel = true;
     }
}

this Doc.Save doesn't invoke the SaveAs dialog where the user will specify the .ODT format. So by default it saves in .docx format instead of .odt format. Is there a way to invoke save as dialog?

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Adeel

Answer 5

bool allowSave = false;
bool showSaveAsUI = false;

void oWord_DocumentBeforeSave(MSWord.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
{
  if (!allowSave)

  {
    allowSave = true;
    showSaveAsUI = SaveAsUI;

    Doc.Save();

    File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
    Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
    ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");

    allowSave = false;

    Cancel = true; 
  }

  SaveAsUI = showSaveAsUI;
}

Well, as you may guess the SaveAsUI ref bool sets that. So I guess you need to propagate that value to the invoked save.

Answer 6

I am afraid this thing doesn't seem to show SaveAs Dialog

private bool bAllowSave = false;
private bool showSaveAsUI = false;

void oWord_DocumentBeforeSave(MSWord.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
{
      if (!bAllowSave)
      {
            bAllowSave = true;
            showSaveAsUI = SaveAsUI;
            Doc.Save();

            File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
            Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
            ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");

            bAllowSave = false;
            Cancel = true;
      }
      SaveAsUI = showSaveAsUI;
}

I hope something isn't missed out

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Adeel

Answer 7

I don't know why that didn't work. Here's a solution I've just tested:

        private bool bAllowSave = false;

        void Application_DocumentBeforeSave(Word.Document Doc, ref bool SaveAsUI, ref bool Cancel)
        {
            if (!bAllowSave)
            {
                bAllowSave = true;

                if (SaveAsUI)
                {
                    // Display Save As dialog
                    Word.Dialog d = this.Application.Dialogs[Word.WdWordDialog.wdDialogFileSaveAs];
                    object timeOut = 0;
                    d.Show(ref timeOut);
                }
                else
                {
                    // Save without dialog
                    Doc.Save();
                }

                File = oWord.ActiveDocument.Path.ToString() + @"\" + oWord.ActiveDocument.Name.ToString();
                Extension = Path.GetExtension(File);
                ribbon.InvalidateControl("ODTConvertor");

                bAllowSave = false;
                Cancel = true;
                return;
            }
        }

You may be able to set the default save format to ODT...but I haven't attempted it before. If you're interested, start looking here and here.

Answer 8

Finally it worked. It was the Word Dialog solved the thing. Thank you for all the help that you've recently provided in this forum section

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Adeel