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Application.ActiveDocument property

Gets the reference to the currently active document

Syntax:

Property Get ActiveDocument() As Document

Remarks:

The ActiveDocument property returns a read-only reference to the active document.

You do not need to activate a document before working with it in CorelDRAW. The document stays inactive, but you still can work with it. For example, consider the following code example:

Documents(1).Activate
ActiveDocument.AddPages 1

The preceding code example produces the same result as the following code example:

Documents(1).AddPages 1

Both of these examples add a new page to the first open document, which is the first document.

Examples:

The following VBA example creates a new document and draws an ellipse in it. Then another document is created, and a rectangle is added to it. The first document is then activated and a new page is added to it.

Sub DocumentActive()
  CreateDocument
  ActiveLayer.CreateEllipse2 3, 2, 1
  CreateDocument
  ActiveLayer.CreateRectangle 2, 3, 4, 5
  Documents(1).Activate
  ActiveDocument.AddPages 1
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