Getting currently open MS word insatnce count and name in C#

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Could some one help me for this problem?
Thanks!
//My requirement is : Inserting external objects in to the word and PPT document using C#. Inserting Menu should show all opened word and PPT documents. Here I am not able to get word's instance/document name.
For PPT we can use

ppApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.Application();
ppApp.Windows[i].Presentation.Name

to get doucument name.
But how it is for MSWord? Below is the code which I tried.

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application wordApp;
wordApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application();
MenuItem mn1;
int iTotInstance = wordApp.Windows.Count;
for (int insatnce = 1; insatnce <= wordApp.Windows.Count; insatnce++)
{
                               mn1 = new MenuItem(wordApp.Windows[insatnce].Name);
                               
                               mn1.Index = iWord;
                               mn0.MenuItems.Add(mn1);
                               cm.MenuItems.Add(0, mn0);
                           }

Posted 22-Apr-11 1:00am

2000 P

Updated 22-Apr-11 2:31am

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Ankit Rajput 22-Apr-11 8:35am

Please check the new solution.

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Ankit Rajput · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-22T02:27:00

Solution 2

Hi,

Please check it

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application objWord;
objWord= (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Word.Application");
for (int i = 0; i < objWord.Windows.Count; i++)
{
     object a = i+1;
     Window objWin = objWord.Windows.get_Item(ref a);
     MessageBox.Show(objWin.Caption);
}
objWin=null;

regards
Ankit

Posted 22-Apr-11 2:27am

Ankit Rajput

Updated 22-Apr-11 2:28am

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2000 P 22-Apr-11 8:41am

no still objWord.Windows.Count is 0 :(

Ankit Rajput 22-Apr-11 10:55am

You have Microsoft Word or anyother Company or any Open source word document

2000 P 24-Apr-11 23:45pm

office 2007

Ankit Rajput 25-Apr-11 2:23am

I have tested it with 2007 only and it is working fine at my end.
Is there any exception you are getting?

2000 P 25-Apr-11 3:00am

Closed all the word process and reexecuted then problem solved. Thank you Ankit.

2000 P 28-Apr-11 7:18am

Hi Ankit,

Here i am facing another problem. When I open different version of the (2003, 2007, 2010) word document simultaneously, program is able to detects only one document instance instead of 3. How can solve this problem?