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UserControl Property

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True if the document or application was created or opened by the user. False if the document or application was created or opened programmatically from another Microsoft Office application with the Open method or the CreateObject or GetObject method. Read/write Boolean for the Document object; read-only Boolean for the Application object.

Remarks

If Word is visible to the user, or if you call the UserControl property of a Word Application or Document object from within a Word code module, this property will always return True.

Example

This example displays the status of the UserControl property for the active document. This example will only work correctly when run from another Office application with the Word object library loaded.

Set wd = New Word.Application
Set wdDoc = _
    wd.Documents.Open("C:\My Documents\doc1.doc")
If wdDoc.UserControl = True Then
    MsgBox "This document was created or opened by the user."
Else
    MsgBox "This document was created programmatically."
End If

Applies to | Application Object | Document Object