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March 11th, 2009, 06:19 PM
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Hide wbk files?
I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she
opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list? 
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March 11th, 2009, 06:22 PM
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Hide wbk files?
GB wrote:
I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list? BTW, that's for word 2003.
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March 11th, 2009, 11:00 PM
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Hide wbk files?
If you use Word's File Open dialog, set to All Word Documents, you won't see
them. Beyond that, I don't know of any way to hide them except to manually mark them as Hidden, which won't help if you have hidden files and folders displayed. Why not just turn off "Automatically create backup copy" if this setting is causing a problem? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "GB" wrote in message ... GB wrote: I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list? BTW, that's for word 2003.
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March 11th, 2009, 11:26 PM
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Hide wbk files?
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
If you use Word's File Open dialog, set to All Word Documents, you won't see them. She recently emailed someone the backup file, using gmail. So, simply having them visible with the explorer is an issue. Beyond that, I don't know of any way to hide them except to manually mark them as Hidden, which won't help if you have hidden files and folders displayed. That's easy to turn off, of course, but I can't find any automatic way to make them hidden in the first place. Why not just turn off "Automatically create backup copy" if this setting is causing a problem? Well, she occasionally messes up big-time, in which case the wbk files are potentially helpful. It occurs to me that there's probably a document save event that I could use to trigger a vba macro? Then just run through all the wbk files in the directory to make them all hidden. Any thoughts on that? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "GB" wrote in message ... GB wrote: I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list? BTW, that's for word 2003.
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#5
March 11th, 2009, 11:46 PM
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Hide wbk files?
Yes, this would work. I'm cross-posting this to a developer group that may
be able to help with the VBA. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "GB" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If you use Word's File Open dialog, set to All Word Documents, you won't see them. She recently emailed someone the backup file, using gmail. So, simply having them visible with the explorer is an issue. Beyond that, I don't know of any way to hide them except to manually mark them as Hidden, which won't help if you have hidden files and folders displayed. That's easy to turn off, of course, but I can't find any automatic way to make them hidden in the first place. Why not just turn off "Automatically create backup copy" if this setting is causing a problem? Well, she occasionally messes up big-time, in which case the wbk files are potentially helpful. It occurs to me that there's probably a document save event that I could use to trigger a vba macro? Then just run through all the wbk files in the directory to make them all hidden. Any thoughts on that? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "GB" wrote in message ... GB wrote: I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list? BTW, that's for word 2003.
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#6
March 12th, 2009, 01:08 AM
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Hide wbk files?
There's probably a more elegant way, but one would be to create a class that sinks
application events, as Dave Rado outlines he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AppClassEvents.htm Then, set a short-duration timer whenever the DocumentBeforeSave event fires, noting the location where the document is to be saved. When the timer elapses, check for a backup at that location, and do what needs to be done. Setting a hidden attribute is pretty easy, using the SetAttr statement. I'm sure there are more elegant ways to attack this, but they'd probably involve more work to rig up too. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Yes, this would work. I'm cross-posting this to a developer group that may be able to help with the VBA. "GB" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If you use Word's File Open dialog, set to All Word Documents, you won't see them. She recently emailed someone the backup file, using gmail. So, simply having them visible with the explorer is an issue. Beyond that, I don't know of any way to hide them except to manually mark them as Hidden, which won't help if you have hidden files and folders displayed. That's easy to turn off, of course, but I can't find any automatic way to make them hidden in the first place. Why not just turn off "Automatically create backup copy" if this setting is causing a problem? Well, she occasionally messes up big-time, in which case the wbk files are potentially helpful. It occurs to me that there's probably a document save event that I could use to trigger a vba macro? Then just run through all the wbk files in the directory to make them all hidden. Any thoughts on that? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "GB" wrote in message ... GB wrote: I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list? BTW, that's for word 2003.
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#7
March 12th, 2009, 01:12 AM
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Karl E. Peterson wrote:
There's probably a more elegant way, but one would be to create a class that sinks application events, as Dave Rado outlines he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AppClassEvents.htm Then, set a short-duration timer whenever the DocumentBeforeSave event fires, noting the location where the document is to be saved. When the timer elapses, check for a backup at that location, and do what needs to be done. Setting a hidden attribute is pretty easy, using the SetAttr statement. I'm sure there are more elegant ways to attack this, but they'd probably involve more work to rig up too. No sooner did I post, that one occurred to me. Using that class-based technique to catch DecumentBeforeSave events is still the key. But forget about timers and such. Just create the backup yourself when this event fires! It can be wherever, with whatever attributes, would be appropriate. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
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#8
March 12th, 2009, 01:49 PM
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Hide wbk files?
Is there a reason that you can't teach her not to open a .wbk file? It seems
that it's better to give her the tools to do this right rather than fiddle around with all of this and allow her to be uneducated in this area. My husband taught me most of my basic computer skills and because of his patience, I've been able to develop them even further. (I still enjoy the time we spend together sharing information with him. Okay, we're geeks, but we're happy geeks with a common interest.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "GB" wrote in message ... I would like to hide the wbk files on my wife's computer, purely because she opens them and then gets confused as she can't edit them and they are not the latest version and so on. Yes, I know.... One simple solution is for word to set the hidden attribute on the backup files when it renames them. Is there any way to do that? Alternatively, can I at least get Word to call them all zzBackup instead of Backup, so they end up at the bottom of the file list?
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