find a
little time today I'll see if I can come up with a snippet that is not untested
pseudo-code...
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rk
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jim Harvey
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:19 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Word
@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Word automation
I believe replacetext is for use by the Find object which is a probable
cause for the error you're getting. You can use wildcards with the Find
object, if that helps. In theory if the range references the cell, you could
do something like this (untested pseudo
Trying to figure out how to replace text in a cell in a table in a Word
document.
otable1 = oword.activedocument.tables[1]
WITH otable1
.cell[1,1].range.insertbefore(newtest)
.cell[1,1].range.insertafter(newtest)
endwith
This will add the text
Good Morning,
Was watching this with great interest. To heck with Word, automation
is so painful If I may be so bold as to ask for a copy of the code
if you wouldn't mind. That sounds like an infinitely more practical
approach to filling out forms
TIA,
Desmond
8-)
On 8 November
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Jarvis, Matthew mat...@mckweb.com wrote:
Go PDF
Ted will prolly chime in here, but he helped me get started using the
dynamic method of fillable PDF forms...
O'Reilly publishes a book, PDF Hacks which I used for my solution.
The author's sponsored link
Thank You!
Just looked at the links, very impressive. Can it be used with VFP?
Regards,
Desmond
On 9 November 2011 09:54, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Jarvis, Matthew mat...@mckweb.com wrote:
Go PDF
Ted will prolly chime in here, but he helped
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Desmond Lloyd desmond.ll...@gmail.com wrote:
Just looked at the links, very impressive. Can it be used with VFP?
I have not tried it, but you should be able to build up a command line
(or even an entire batch file), shell out to DOS and execute it,
capturing
If I have an application that automates a Word 2003 document, will it
work with Word 2007 or Word 2010 if my customer has those versions - on
the same document?
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Jeff
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[mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Jeff Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:01 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Word Automation
If I have an application that automates a Word 2003 document, will it work with
Word 2007 or Word 2010 if my customer has those versions
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Richard Kaye rk...@artfact.com wrote:
Maybe... I've found that most of my automation code works without changing
but the only way to know for sure is to test. (Did I just hear Ted?)
rofl! It's hot button of mine. Several large applications that
depended on
On 11/8/11 1:01 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
If I have an application that automates a Word 2003 document, will it
work with Word 2007 or Word 2010 if my customer has those versions - on
the same document?
Count on it not working. Be pleasantly surprised if it does work.
Paul
Ok. Let me rephrase the question. I have government forms that I can
get in fillable pdf or word documents. I need my application to fill
out those forms. I would prefer to avoid Word at all cost.
How can I accomplish this without using Word?
I thought of creating an image on the report
Ok. Let me rephrase the question. I have government forms that I can
get in fillable pdf or word documents. I need my application to fill
out those forms. I would prefer to avoid Word at all cost.
How can I accomplish this without using Word?
Go PDF
Ted will prolly chime in
You would be my hero if you would do that!!! I really need to fill
these forms out in order to be able to do this application and
automating Word was literally scaring me. I have avoided automation and
active x at all costs and it has worked out well for me.
Thank you so much!
Jeff
On 11/8/2011 4:31 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
It was one of my more painful experiences with
Microsoft, and one that convinced me that MSFT wasn't serious about
allowing their customer-developers to ship reliable and compatible
enterprise-grade software.
Nah...why would they want to do that? LOL
Yep. No guarantees with the upgrade and it probably won't be painless. This
is one thing that I really, really hate about Microsoft.
From: Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Word Automation
Oh wow
Would you be prepared to share the code with others?
S
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jarvis, Matthew mat...@mckweb.com wrote:
Ok. Let me rephrase the question. I have government forms that I can
get in fillable pdf or word documents. I need my application to fill
out those
Oh wow
Would you be prepared to share the code with others?
Sure, no problem...
Again, thanks to Ted for showing me the light...
A bit verbose but in places I deal with different sorts of data types and you
might find it useful... and too lazy to trim it... ;)
FYI this is being read
Running as a Domain Administrator removes UAC on Vista, I believe it is the
same on Windows 7. Even Internet Explorer will run in the administrative
privilege with this user.
Actually, it doesn't work that way in Windows 7. You will still get UAC
confirmation dialogs in Windows 7 even when
Also, just running my compiled .exe, without accessing the Word automation
feature--just starting it and shutting it down--as a standard user,
produces VFP error 57 not enough disk space on the line:
SET RESOURCE TO
in my environment object.
I thought this was because the foxuser
This is a continuation of my Word Automation: OLE exception error 5981 in
Windows 7 thread.
Thanks to some great help from many of you, so far I have accomplished the
following:
1. I established that my Word 97 automation system works fine in Windows XP
once I make sure a required .bmp file
Ken Dibble wrote on 2010-06-09:
This is a continuation of my Word Automation: OLE exception error
5981 in Windows 7 thread.
snip
However, even with the User Account Control: Behavior of the
elevation prompt for standard users item set to Prompt for
credentials, when the Word 97 automation
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Tracy Pearson tr...@powerchurch.com wrote:
Running as a Domain Administrator removes UAC on Vista, I believe it is the
same on Windows 7. Even Internet Explorer will run in the administrative
privilege with this user.
You found the Word.Application in the
[Ted suggested disabling anti-virus]
That didn't work. However, it prompted me to actually look at my error
logs. Sometimes I forget that I have a logging feature.
In Windows 7 the error definitely occurs on .documents.Add (or
.documents.Add(), or documents.Add(cSomePathSomeFile).
However,
Ken,
and fails with This is not a valid file name.
Can you log what file name is failing?
Possible reasons for the failure:
- use of virtual folder names like My Documents
- spaces in path (should work, but not always reliable)
- illegal chars in file name, eg. , , etc.
My bet is on the
and fails with This is not a valid file name.
Can you log what file name is failing?
Possible reasons for the failure:
- use of virtual folder names like My Documents
- spaces in path (should work, but not always reliable)
- illegal chars in file name, eg. , , etc.
My bet is on the first
Ken Dibble wrote on 2010-06-08:
As I've described, at that point in Windows 7, Word has created a 1 kb
temp ~$Normal.dot file in the same location as Normal.dot, which, in
Windows 7, is C:\Users\kend\My Documents\Office Templates\--a legally
writeable location. And the Normal.dot template
Ken Dibble wrote on 2010-06-08:
As I've described, at that point in Windows 7, Word has created a 1 kb
temp ~$Normal.dot file in the same location as Normal.dot, which, in
Windows 7, is C:\Users\kend\My Documents\Office Templates\--a legally
writeable location. And the Normal.dot template
elevation
error as above.
Also, just running my compiled .exe, without accessing the Word automation
feature--just starting it and shutting it down--as a standard user,
produces VFP error 57 not enough disk space on the line:
SET RESOURCE TO
in my environment object.
I thought
! Whoohoo!!
However, I have yet to figure out how to get it to run for a standard
user. For a standard user, I still get the Operation requires elevation
error as above.
Also, just running my compiled .exe, without accessing the Word automation
feature--just starting it and shutting it down
What SP level in Word 97? I found that having it fully patched (SP2, I
believe was the last one released for Office 97) did clear up some
relatively esoteric automation issues back in the day.
I had SR 1. Upgrading to SR 2 in Windows 7 was interesting; the
installation failed because it
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ken Dibble krdib...@frontiernet.net wrote:
On Friday I saw some other folks had suggestions, but I didn't forward them
to my work email so I'll look at those again tonight.
Ken: You can always find the thread on the leafe.com archives:
On Friday I saw some other folks had suggestions, but I didn't forward them
to my work email so I'll look at those again tonight.
Ken: You can always find the thread on the leafe.com archives:
http://leafe.com/archives/full_thread/441824
Jeez, thanks Ted! I don't know why I never think
Ken,
I realize you've said it worked before using FCREATE, but just wondering if
you ran any tests with an existing DOC file instead of creating a 0 byte
new/empty file each time - just to see if it has any effect.
Bill
If I create and save an empty Word document (containing a single
Ken,
I've kept a distance from Word automation after hearing of compatibility
headaches, but I couldn't resist in a few cases. Just took at look and I see
that in these cases I'm creating a new doc, and none involves a reference to
an existing file (new/empty or prev existing) for the operation
Ken,
I've kept a distance from Word automation after hearing of compatibility
headaches, but I couldn't resist in a few cases. Just took at look and I see
that in these cases I'm creating a new doc, and none involves a reference to
an existing file (new/empty or prev existing) for the operation
] On
Behalf Of Ken Dibble
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 2:06 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Word Automation: OLE exception error 5981 in Windows 7
Ken,
I've kept a distance from Word automation after hearing of compatibility
headaches, but I couldn't resist in a few cases. Just took
Ken,
I've kept a distance from Word automation after hearing of
compatibility
headaches, but I couldn't resist in a few cases. Just took
at look and I see
that in these cases I'm creating a new doc, and none
involves a reference to
an existing file (new/empty or prev existing
awful errors with Word automation when we switched
machines and the other machines AV would hang the file open for longer
than my automation code expected, leading to wacky and misleading
errors. If you can, try disabling it, at least for Word docs, and see
if you're seeing the same problems.
Anti
What happens if you use a specific document reference in the Add call?
rk
-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Dibble
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:03 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Word Automation: OLE
What happens if you use a specific document reference in the Add call?
Interesting you should ask.
This old code I'm using would create the new document and get a file handle
for it with FCREATE(), then it would leave the file open to lock it to
avoid surprises. This worked fine in Windows
Ken,
I realize you've said it worked before using FCREATE, but just wondering if
you ran any tests with an existing DOC file instead of creating a 0 byte
new/empty file each time - just to see if it has any effect.
Bill
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I have some Word automation code that worked fine in Win 2000 but is
not
working in Win 7. Yeah, I'm using Word 97, but I have heard that this
problem can also occur with Word 2003, so let's for the sake of
argument
hold off on the jeering and see if there are any solutions, okay
, 2010 8:17 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Word Automation: OLE exception error 5981 in Windows 7
I have some Word automation code that worked fine in Win
2000 but is
not
working in Win 7. Yeah, I'm using Word 97, but I have
heard that this
problem can also occur
This KB related to the general topic Could Not Open Macro Storage might be
informative?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224338
Thanks Bill. I had already seen that early on. I did try some of the
suggestions in that article, and they didn't work. I don't know how to
programmatically load a
Hi folks,
I have some Word automation code that worked fine in Win 2000 but is not
working in Win 7. Yeah, I'm using Word 97, but I have heard that this
problem can also occur with Word 2003, so let's for the sake of argument
hold off on the jeering and see if there are any solutions, okay
-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com
[mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]
On Behalf Of Ken Dibble
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 7:29 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Word Automation: OLE exception error 5981 in Windows 7
Hi folks,
I have some Word
I usually use this code to launch Excel via automation:
if upper(vartype(thisform.oExcel)) O
thisform.oExcel=createobject(Excel.Application)
else
thisform.oExcel=getobject( , Excel.Application)
endif
The above code was derived from the Hacker's Guide by Tamar Granor and
others.
I thought it was the other way round. Check for getobject then if not create
it.
Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Rafael Copquin
I usually use this code to launch Excel via automation:
if upper(vartype(thisform.oExcel)) O
: Word automation
I usually use this code to launch Excel via automation:
if upper(vartype(thisform.oExcel)) O
thisform.oExcel=createobject(Excel.Application)
else
thisform.oExcel=getobject( , Excel.Application)
endif
The above code was derived from the Hacker's Guide by Tamar Granor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Rafael Copquin
Sent: 22 September 2008 11:47
To: profox
Subject: Word automation
I usually use this code to launch Excel via automation:
if upper(vartype(thisform.oExcel)) O
thisform.oExcel=createobject(Excel.Application
My experience has been it's a hit and miss. I never tried to figure out
how/why I got one or the other.
Tracy
-Original Message-
From: Chris Davis
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 12:10 PM
and if excel is loaded more than once ? is it possible to get access to
either ?
2008/9/22 Dave
this is why i changed the way excel loads so that when i create an instance
to use from my app it creates a new instance and leaves any the user has
opened themselves alone
2008/9/22 Tracy Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My experience has been it's a hit and miss. I never tried to figure out
how/why
I usually do something like this:
WAIT WINDOW [Finding Excel...] NOWAIT NOCLEAR
LOCAL loExcel AS Excel.Application, loWorkbook AS Excel.Workbook,
loSheet AS EXCEL.Worksheet
TRY
loExcel=GETOBJECT(,[excel.application])
CATCH swallow the error if excel isn't running.
ENDTRY
IF
Thank you guys
I'll look into your suggestions
Rafael
- Original Message -
From: Rafael Copquin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:47 AM
Subject: Word automation
I usually use this code to launch Excel via automation:
if upper(vartype
This makes the margins for the first two pages, but the rest of the
document's margins don't follow?
oword = createobject(word.application)
oword.visible = .t.
oword.documents.open(lcword)
#define autoinchestopoints 72
#define wdtableaderdots 1
#define wdaligntabright 1
#define wdaligntableft 0
Section breaks can have different margins.
Tracy
-Original Message-
From: James E Harvey
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:11 AM
This makes the margins for the first two pages, but the rest of the
document's margins don't follow?
SNIP /
James E Harvey
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.
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