>Hi!
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>I have a client who will be requiring some wordprocessing capabilities in an app, but he doesn't have office installed in all his computers (and isn't inclined to do so for such limited usage).
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>Is there any way to use the functionality built in wordpad? It comes included with windows and is plenty for what we need.
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Worpad is an OLE Server - if no other program has registered to service the file extension .DOC, it will be used by ShyellExecute() to open .DOC files, and will service General fields with a DOC type.

Wordpad does not understand Word documents formatted later than the Word 6.0 format. It will not be able to handle Word 97/Word 2000 format .DOC files unless they were specifically saved in the Word 6.0 format.

Wordpad is not an automation server. No VBA, no macros, no object model to manipulate, no mail merge, etc.