CheckOut (Sharepoint) Word Document from within Excel VBA - excel

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Good Morning All,
I have fought with this for a few days now, and have not yet found a suitable solution, so I hope somebody can put me out of my misery!
From within an excel document, I have 3 buttons to check out and open 3 documents from a Microsoft Sharepoint Server. 2 files are Excel workbooks, and one is a Word document.
The excel files work absolutely fine, but the Word document always returns 'False' when the .CanCheckOut statement is reached, even though I can manually check it out on MOSS, have the correct permissions etc. I have added the Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library reference in my Excel VBA.
Here is my code for the excel ones:
Sub CheckOutXL(FullPath As String)
Dim xlApp As Object
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim xlFile As String
xlFile = FullPath
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
'Determine if workbook can be checked out.
If Workbooks.CanCheckOut(xlFile) = True Then
'Check out file
Workbooks.CheckOut xlFile
'Open File
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application
xlApp.Visible = True
Set wb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(xlFile, , False)
'Otherwise offer the option to open read-only
Else
If (MsgBox("You are unable to check out this document at this time, would you like to open it read-only?", vbYesNo) = vbYes) Then
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application
xlApp.Visible = True
Set wb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(xlFile, , False)
End If
End If
and for the Word one:
Sub CheckOutDoc(FullPath As String)
If Documents(docFile).CanCheckOut = True Then 'This is the one that returns FALSE
Documents.CheckOut docFile
' Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") 'The commented out section was
' objWord.Visible = True 'a second way I tried to open
' objWord.Documents.Open docFile 'the file.
Documents.Open Filename:=docFile
Else
If (MsgBox("You are unable to check out this document at this time, would you like to open it read-only?", vbYesNo) = vbYes) Then
Documents.Open Filename:=docFile
End If
End If
End Sub
These are both called using a simple line for each button as such:
Private Sub btnTrend_Click()
Call CheckOutXL("FullPathOfTheFileInHere.xls")
End Sub
Any help massively appreciated!! Thanks

Answer 1

We are having the same issue. Can you try this:
If CBool(Documents(docFile).CanCheckOut) = True Then