title: Opening Word (from Outlook VBA) in Safe Mode
body: <p>I have a Word document as an attachment to an email that I need to get some data out of to pass to a URL.  To do this I'm saving the attachment to the local temp file, then opening the document, and then using the Word object model to pull data out of tables in the document.</p>
  
  <p>I'm having a couple of problems when opening the document in VBA: firstly it's very slow because we have some corporate macro stuff that loads when Word opens; and secondly if there are any messages that ping up when Word opens (such as document recovery stuff), the code just hangs and Word is never closed.</p>
  
  <p>So, my question is can I open Word in safe mode from VBA so that nothing but the bare bones document is available (because that's all I need)?  Or, is there a better way of controlling Word that gets around the issues I'm having?</p>