Bart schrieb: > Currently I'm working on an app that needs to interact with M$ Word. > The intended users are computer noobs, so I expect no knowledge from > them whatsoever. > > Problem. > My app calculates/compose tabular data (in the order of 6 cols x 50 rows). > These data have to be inserted into a word document as a word table. > (Most users will not be able to convert text with tabs to a table in > Word, no matter how often explained). > > Two different approaches come to mind. > > First approach: > Paste the data (all strings) onto the clipboard in Word Table format. > (I can get the users to paste this in their document...) > Does anyone have a clue as to how to achieve this?
Better stay away from creating data structures for external applications - this approach most probably will fail with the next Word version :-( Even if you intend to bind your customers to updates of your program, you'll have to determine the installed Word version at runtime, and provide the code for *every* supported version. > Second approach: > Use MS Office automation. > Create new document from template (how do I know where user's > templates (*.dot files) are?). > Go to right place in document. > Create table > Insert data into table. > > There is a basic wiki document on how to open a word doc in Word with > automation, but I never used office automation at all, so all steps I > have no clue as to how to achieve them. Ask in a MS Office/Word group. Your problem is not Lazarus or Pascal related, it's a matter of the "VBA for Word" programming language and libraries. DoDi _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
