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

[Laverty, Danny]

Despite the help I have received, I still can't cleanly do what I was trying to achieve (my current situation is listed at the end of this e-mail in case it is relevant).  Indications are that the problems are related to my PC environment and probably my version of OpenROAD.  If this is the case then I am probably wasting my time trying to achieve the impossible and need to change my environment before proceeding.

Can anyone tell me when ActiveX became stable/usable with OpenROAD (I suspect it is OR4.1 SP3 and above)?

N.B.  I am developing in OR4.1 SP2 and can't move up to SP3 until our entire 300+ user PCs have been upgraded to SP3 (due to a known bug that results in application crashes on OR4.1 SP2 runtime PCs if the image has been created in OR4.1 SP3).

Thanks

Danny



 1.  Open an MS Word document in an MS Word window
*         I can successfully achieve this by entering "CMD.exe /c c:/WordDoc.doc" in Start --> Run on my PC.  The use of the /c ensures the Command window automatically closes once it has opened the MS Word window.
*         When I try to do the equivalent from within OR, I can't get into the MS Word window until I manually shut down the Command window (despite using the /c).

 1.  Open an MS Word mail merge document, run the merge and then print the merged document.
*         I can open the MS Word document (in the background).  I can even print this document (again, in the background) if I want.
*         When I try to run the merge - using external Visual Basic Method "Mailmerge.Execute()" - it fails with the message

E_WT006D The invocation of an external object method failed.  The method 'execute' for source 'Microsoft Word' returned an error code of 80020009 and the error message:  'This method or property is not available because the document is not a mail merge main document.'

*         Not unexpectedly, the resulting print is blank.

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