Document.Activate method - Developer Area

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Document.Activate method

Opens a document in the main application window in CorelDRAW or Corel DESIGNER, if the window is not currently open, and makes the document active

Syntax:

Sub Activate()

Remarks:

The Activate method opens a document in the main application window in CorelDRAW, if the window is not currently open, and makes the document active. A document in CorelDRAW is single-page drawing or a collection of single-page drawings that make up a multi-page document.

Examples:

The following VBA example copies all objects from the active document to the second document, page by page, and then activates the second document.

Sub Test()
  Dim doc1 As Document, doc2 As Document
  Dim p As Page
  If Documents.Count <> 2 Then
    MsgBox "2 documents must be open"
    Exit Sub
  End If
  If ActiveDocument Is Documents(1) Then
    Set doc1 = Documents(1)
    Set doc2 = Documents(2)
  Else
    Set doc1 = Documents(2)
    Set doc2 = Documents(1)
  End If
  If doc1.Pages.Count > doc2.Pages.Count Then
    doc2.AddPages doc1.Pages.Count - doc2.Pages.Count
  End If
  For Each p In doc1.Pages
    p.Activate
    p.Shapes.All.Copy
    doc2.Pages(p.Index).Activate
    doc2.ActiveLayer.Paste
  Next p
  doc2.Activate
End Sub

Version Information:

CorelDRAW:	X7.4, X7, X7.6, X8, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2019.2, 2020, 2021, 2020.1, 2021.5, 2022-v24, 2022-v24.1, 2022-v24.2, 2023-v24.3, 2023-v24.5, 2024-v25
Corel DESIGNER:	X7, 2017.1, 20.1, 2019.2, 2020.1, 2021.5, 2022-v24, 2022-v24.1, 2022-v24.2, 2023-v24.3, 2023-v24.5, 2024-v25