Question

i’m simply trying to close a document (without quitting word), but this does not work.

I’ve tried :

close documents saving no
close active document
close document 1

but none of this is working..

The error I get (on the close line) is:

Microsoft Word got an error: The object you are trying to access does not exist

Here is a simplified script. Anyone have any ideas? All examples online seem to use this syntax, not sure if anything changed in the mac office 2011 version?

set input to {POSIX path of "/Users/Wesley/Desktop/test.doc"}


--ENABLE GUI SCRIPTING
tell application "System Events"
if UI elements enabled is false then set UI elements enabled to true
end tell

--RUN THE GUISCRIPT
set pdfSavePath to POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Set destination folder")
repeat with x in input
display dialog x

tell application "Microsoft Word"
    activate
    open x
    set theActiveDoc to the active document

    close theActiveDoc saving no

    return
    end tell
 end repeat

Answer 1

close active document and close document 1 both work for me. Perhaps you need a delay statement before the theActiveDoc variable is assigned?