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Using Word 97 Ole Automation Commands in Visual Fox
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00085204
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>Hello All,
>
>Recently, I have been trying to control Word 97 from Visual Foxpro 5.0 using Word as an OLE Automation Server, and I have had limited success at best in controlling the Word application.
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>More specifically, I have been unable to change the properties of the current selection, such as turning the Bold property on and off, or the orientation property of the current document.
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>I have used the following code to try changing the font to Bold:
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>OWord = CreateObject("word.basic.8")
>OWord.FileNew()
>OWord.Insert("This is the non-bolded text")
>OWord.selection.font.bold = .T.
>OWord.Insert("This is the bolded text")
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>This code bombs on the fourth line with an OLE error of "Unknown Name".
>
>What am I doing wrong? Does anyone know a list of Word 97 Visual Basic functions that directly translate in Visual Fox 5?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ben Holton


Hi,

You probably have to use a number corresponding to words "True". Word does not use .T.

Klas Nygren
(using VFP 3.0 for Win & Mac)
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