BackgroundOpen Property

True for Microsoft Word to open Web documents in the background. Read/write Boolean.

expression.BackgroundOpen

expression Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

While Microsoft Word is opening a large Web document in the background, users can continue to type and choose commands in another document. However, until the Web document is fully opened, Word Visual Basic for Applications functions are disabled for the document being opened.

Example

This example toggles between opening large Web documents in the background and not opening them in the background.

Sub BackOpen()
    If Options.BackgroundOpen = False Then
        Options.BackgroundOpen = True
    Else
        Options.BackgroundOpen  = False
    End If
End Sub

Applies to | Options Object