Much of my work is done in full-screen MS-Word, with laptop plus two other screens, where the slowest link in the system is the user/keyboard. Plenty of time left for DF to do its thing. There are times, however, when I run a VBA macro that searches and extracts blocks of text from a large database, according to certain settable keywords/strings. It can take 20-30 mins to run, depending on the keywords/strings selected. When this macro is running alongside DF, DF slows it down by up to 20-25%.

Is there a way to pause DF when this macro is running? i.e. can DF be paused and restarted programmatically? Thanks.

Thanks. That looks like it'll do the trick.

Any idea what's wrong with the Call Shell statement? It is running the command, but DF is telling me "No command line parameters found", which means that it is not picking up the argument. Run directly from the command prompt the command itself works fine.

Sub runCmdLine()

Dim strProgramName As String
Dim strArgument As String

strProgramName = "C:\Program Files (x86)\DisplayFusion\DisplayFusionCommand.exe"
strArgument = "-closeall"

Call Shell("""" & strProgramName & """ """ & strArgument & """", vbNormalFocus) ' statement is not passing the argument correctly

' These are the command lines to be run
' "C:\Program Files (x86)\DisplayFusion\DisplayFusionCommand.exe" -closeall
' "C:\Program Files (x86)\DisplayFusion\DisplayFusion.exe"

End Sub

Ah! A friend pointed out that the argument should not be in inverted commas. This code is now working:



Thanks for the help.