[Openroad-users] Embedding MS Word in an OR application

[Laverty, Danny]

My users have a need to kick off MS Word from OpenROAD 4.1 (probably opening a new document from a template or opening a known document that has a merge incorporated in it then going on to print the merged document).

I know others have done this or something similar (E.G. Pete's "ActiveX Word - hanging" submission earlier this month).  The OpenROAD documentation shows me how to create and register External Class Libraries but I could not tell from the list available to me what I should be using or how to use it.  I tried a "suck it and see" approach but didn't get anywhere.

I thought it would be easy to search the web and find documentation on the ActiveX component I should be using and how to use it.  So far I have had a fruitless, frustrating search that has yielded almost nothing.  I can't even tell if I need to purchase ActiveX components (for my developer PC or for runtime PCs as well) or if there are free ActiveX components I can use.

To get me kick-started, can anyone give me any pointers and/or sample code?

Danny

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