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Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? [message #66445 is a reply to message #66443]

Sun, 10 May 2009 07:22

jeffnettles4870
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On May 10, 10:01 am, Dave <daikan1...@tom.com> wrote:
> Dear people:
> Everyday, i have lots of word documents to produce, which have the
> same forms but different text and image contents. Please tell me if
> there are any ways to using IDL to generate word automatically? thanks
> a lot.
>
> dave

If you are using Windows and have a fairly recent version of IDL (6.3+
i think), then yes you can theoretically do this using ActiveX/COM
objects. I've tried it however, and have met with mixed results.
It's fairly easy to get Word running with an IDL program, but beyond
that I wasn't able to do much else that was useful. The reason for
this was not anything that was the fault of IDL, but that Word's
object model is so, well, obtuse i guess is the nice way to put it.
So i had the same trouble controlling Word from several different
ActiveX-aware languages, including perl and visual basic itself. But
yes it's theoretically possible, look at IDLcomIDispatch objects in
the IDL help files to get you started, and good luck!

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		Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? By: Jean H. on Mon, 11 May 2009 05:30
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		Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? By: d.poreh on Sun, 10 May 2009 12:01
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