{"id":7661,"date":"2015-02-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/23\/powertip-troubleshoot-a-word-automation-script\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:31","slug":"powertip-troubleshoot-a-word-automation-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-troubleshoot-a-word-automation-script\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Troubleshoot a Word Automation Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn to troubleshoot a Windows PowerShell script for Microsoft Word automation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/3414.Q.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/3414.Q.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp;I have been struggling with a Windows PowerShell script that automates Word. Every time I run the script, I get an <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;error message that says the Word document is locked. What can I do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/0602.A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/0602.A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" width=\"34\" height=\"33\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;When you test or develop your Windows PowerShell script for Word automation, make sure that you quit the&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Word.Application<\/b>&nbsp;object and close the Word document. Otherwise, the document will be locked. This is <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; especially true if you set the&nbsp;<b>Application.Visible<\/b>&nbsp;property to&nbsp;<b>$false<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn to troubleshoot a Windows PowerShell script for Microsoft Word automation. &nbsp;&nbsp;I have been struggling with a Windows PowerShell script that automates Word. Every time I run the script, I get an &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;error message that says the Word document is locked. What can I do? &nbsp;&nbsp;When you test or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn to troubleshoot a Windows PowerShell script for Microsoft Word automation. &nbsp;&nbsp;I have been struggling with a Windows PowerShell script that automates Word. Every time I run the script, I get an &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;error message that says the Word document is locked. What can I do? &nbsp;&nbsp;When you test or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}