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The 'native ability' of Notes to edit an attachment,...
...as you put it, really does detach the file behind the scenes. When you save the document in Notes, it re-attaches the file. (What it fails to do, unfortunately, is saving the file on the application level before it gets re-attached. That's why changes get lost unless the user was wise enough to save the file manually from the application's menu, before saving the document in Notes. IMO, that's a show stopper for many average users.)
The code behind your button could do the following:
1. Detach the file to the current user's temp folder.
2. Launch Word, open the file.
From the QuerySave event of the form:
3. Detect if the file is still open in Word. If so, run Word's Save command.
4. (Optionally, if applicable) Close the file in Word.
5. Re-attach the file.
Steps 2 through 4 require COM to remote-control Word. I assume you are more or less familiar with that. If not, I bet there must be plenty of examples out there, demonstrating how to use COM for controlling Word from LotusScript or other VBA-like scripting languages.
Feedback response number JSAK8QYE5C created by ~Tip Zekjumitexakol on 01/29/2012
The 'native ability' of Notes to edit an attachment,...
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