Bring previous opened window (Word document) to foreground - excel

Question

Suppose I have two hyperlinks (on excel sheet) referring to two documents:
e.g ( A.doc and B.doc ) on my local intranet.
I will open the first document "A.doc" then I will open the second one "B.doc"
The problem:
If there is already an opened word document and then I clicked hyperlink (Word Document on my local intranet),
The later file is not opened automatically and I have to click on the flashing taskbar button to open the cited second file.
This issue occurs only with Microsoft word documents found on my local intranet.
If there is no open document and I clicked on any word hyperlink, It opens normally without any issue.
Please watch this short video to understand my problem.
I need to utilize FollowHyperlink event in excel or any other method to:
bring the previous opened window A.doc to front and then bring the second one B.doc to front.
you may find it a strange question! But I have to do it manually each time to show and bring the second one to front.
I have used this API code (in a Word document) on Normal-ThisDocument:
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" _
(ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Dim LHwnd As Long
Private Sub Document_Open()
If Application.Documents.Count > 1 Then
LHwnd = FindWindow("rctrl_renwnd32", Application.ActiveWindow.Caption)
SetForegroundWindow (LHwnd)
End If
End Sub
And used that code on my excel sheet itself:
Private Sub Worksheet_FollowHyperlink(ByVal Target As Hyperlink)
On Error Resume Next
Dim objWd As Object
Set objWd = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
AppActivate objWd.ActiveWindow.Caption
Set objWd = Nothing
End Sub
Finally, I found this helpful page Bring an external application window to the foreground But I could not adapted it to my need.

Answer 1

Please, try the next BeforeDoubleClick event. If the problem is related only to hyperlinks, it should work...
Option Explicit
Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)
If Target.column = 1 And Target.Value <> "" Then 'limit this behavior to the first column
If LCase(left(Target.Value, 5)) = "http:" Then
Cancel = True
Dim objWd As Object, d As Object, arrD: arrD = Split(Target.Value, ".")
If LCase(left(arrD(UBound(arrD)), 3)) <> "doc" Then Exit Sub
On Error Resume Next
Set objWd = GetObject(, "Word.Application") 'find the Word open session, if any
On Error GoTo 0
If objWd Is Nothing Then
Set objWd = CreateObject("Word.Application")
End If
With objWd
.Visible = True
Set d = .Documents.Open(Target.Value)
End With
'force somehow the new open document window expose its handler...
Dim i As Long
Do Until objWd.ActiveWindow.Caption = d.name Or _
objWd.ActiveWindow.Caption = left(d.name, InstRev(d.name, ".")-1) & " [Read-Only] [Compatibility Mode]"
i = i + 1: Debug.Print objWd.ActiveWindow.Caption, left(d.name, InstRev(d.name, ".")-1) & " [Read-Only] [Compatibility Mode]"
DoEvents: If i >= 10 Then Exit Do 'just in case, if something unexpected happens...
Loop
SetForegroundWindow CLngPtr(objWd.ActiveWindow.hWnd)
End If
End If
End Sub
It should work in 64 bit, but it is easy to be adapted for both cases, supposing that it works as you need.