MS word automation examples

[tiziacaia]

Do somebody know where i can find a word automation example to write a .doc file? Thanks a lot tiziacaia

[V 0]

find your office "compiled help" file. This file has the .chm extension. Here you can read up about the objects ... It will not really get you started though. Search on MSDN and google and idd hope that somebody has a sample code. good luck. "If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... and don't be late." ~ Jimi Hendrix

[David Crow]

MSDN article Q178749 has an Excel example. Step 9 is the important one as you'll use Word's type library instead of Excel's. Creating an instance of the (Word) _Application object and using its methods will be the same, though.

_Application app;
app.CreateDispatch(_T("Word.Application"));
Documents docs = app.GetDocuments();
CString strFilename(_T("A letter to home.doc"));
_Document doc = docs.Open(COleVariant(strFileName), ...);
...

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[tiziacaia]

Thanks a lot for the answers but now i get a new problem: error C2065: '_Application' : undeclared identifier I added word's type library, with classes _Application, _Document and Documents. I tryied to import the .h files but don't work. I don't understand. Thanks

[David Crow]

tiziacaia wrote: I tryied to import the .h files but don't work. You should have included, not imported, msword9.h, preferably in the project's stdafx.h file.

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[tiziacaia]

I write "import" but i used correctly the "include". I don't have msword9.h but only CApplication.h, CDocuemnts.h and CDocuments0.h I added the .h files like you say in the stdafx.h but don't work.

[David Crow]

When you added Word's type library, it would have created a .h and a .cpp file and added those to the project. Can you confirm this?

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"When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

[tiziacaia]

Yes, but the created files are only: CApplication.h,CDocuments.h and CDocument0.h