Paul, Using CreateObject will fail if an instance of Word is already running. Have they got Outlook open as this uses Word to edit emails? In which case only allow editing via the text editor under Options.
Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: 29 June 2007 14:38 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Help - cannot create word.application Hi All, I've got a problem with a site that has me stumped. Our app has a feature where users can write their own reports using Word. The app creates an Excel sheet and fires up a user-created Word document that is linked to the Excel sheet and perform a mail merge. Works great and is in use in many sites. All done using Automation. Now we have a new site (a Hotel) that is about to go live. The site was previously installed by our agent in Ireland and was working OK. Yesterday they reported a problem. Office reports were only working on 2 out of the 4 PCs. Today it's only 1 out of 4. It looks like our app cannot create an instance of Word - CreateObject("word.application") seems to be failing. They've tried re-installing Office and running as Domain Admin but still no joy. Also tried opening Word before running the report but still no luck. I'm running out of ideas here and the hotel is going live tomorrow. They use these reports to print welcome letters etc for the guests so it's quite important. I created a .VBS script that works the same way and this opens Word fine. Does anyone have any ideas? Could it be a group policy or other security setting??? Help! -- Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
