Share via

Application.ActiveDocument Property

  • Article
Visio Automation Reference

Returns the active Document object, which is the document shown in the active window. Read-only.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Visio 2.0

Syntax

expression.ActiveDocument

expression   A variable that represents an Application object.

Return Value
Document

Remarks

When no documents are open, there is no active document and the ActiveDocument property returns the value Nothing and does not raise an exception.

If your code is in the Microsoft Visual Basic project of a Visio document, the ActiveDocument property often, but not necessarily, returns a reference to the ThisDocument object, a class module in the Visual Basic project of every Microsoft Office Visio document. If the ThisDocument object is shown in the active window, the ActiveDocument object and the ThisDocument object refer to the same document. When the ThisDocument object is referenced from code in a project, it returns a reference to the project's Document object.

Whether you use the ActiveDocument object or the ThisDocument object depends on the purpose of your code.

You can compare the result returned by the ActiveDocument property with the value Nothing to determine if a document is active. If the value of the Application.Documents.Count property is greater than zero, at least one document is open and active.

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro shows two safe ways to get an active document (if one exists). In each case, it prints the name of the active document in the Immediate window. The code gets the active document without qualification from the Visio global object, which is automatically available to VBA code that is part of the VBA project of a Visio document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  
Public Sub ActiveDocument_Example()
   
    Dim vsoDocument As Document 

'First method
If Documents.Count > 0 Then
    Set vsoDocument = ActiveDocument 
    Debug.Print vsoDocument.Name 
Else
    Debug.Print "No active document." 
End If  

'Second method
If Not(ActiveDocument Is Nothing)  Then
    Set vsoDocument = ActiveDocument 
    Debug.Print vsoDocument.Name 
Else
    Debug.Print "No active document." 
End If



End Sub

See Also