MS Word Automation - I get so far - now what?

[Bryan Anslow]

Hi, I am trying to rewrite an old VC++ wrapper class around MS Word Automation - it used to use *.tli and *.tlh files, but now MS recommends just using the *.h files which get generated. So, that is another level of complexity. So, I got so far, now I am wondering what to do next. Here are some code snips, the real code obviously has error correction etc., so here is what I have so far;

IDispatch *pWordInst;
CApplication *pWordApp;
CDocument0 *pDoc;
IUnknown *pUnknown;

HRESULT res = CoInitialize(NULL);

CLSID clsid;
HRESULT hr = CLSIDFromProgID(L"Word.Application", &clsid);

hr = CoCreateInstance(clsid, NULL, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, IID_IDispatch, (void **)&pWordInst);

pUnknown = NULL;
REFIID iid2 = __uuidof(IUnknown);

hr = pWordInst->QueryInterface(iid2, (void **)&pUnknown);

So, now I need to get the Application and Document objects (assuming that this code creates a new document as it used to). I am guessing I need a getApplication() but what MS class do I use for that? Once I have the Application, then I can get the Document, presumably with a get_Documents() or get_ActiveDocument()?. After that I guess it will run like my older version used to. Any help and advice would be great. Many Thanks, Bryan.

[Lost User]

Take a look at MS Office OLE Automation Using C++[^].

[David Crow]

I've always done it like:

_Application app;
Documents docs;
_Document doc;

if (app.CreateDispatch("Word.Application") == TRUE)
{
docs = app.GetDocuments();

doc = docs.Open(COleVariant(strFileName), ...);

// do something with the document

docs.Close(vtFalse, vtOptional, vtOptional);

app.Quit(vtOptional, vtOptional, vtOptional);

}

Not sure if that helps you or not.

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