Word 2007 COM object

Question

I am having a heck of a time finding a good example of a word
COM object. I just upgraded from word 2000 to word 2007, in hopes
that would suddenly work for me (which honestly I didn't
expect...). In word 2000, this line worked fine, but not in 2007:
thisDoc.SaveAs("c:\MyDoc.doc");
Here is what I am trying to accomplish: I need to use values
submitted by forms and input it into a word document. The word doc
needs to have different paragraphs in different formats. I thought
I could build the paragraphs somehow, with formatting with
something like para1 = docrange.newparagraph(); then insert the
text and formatting into para1 and then insert para1 into the
document. It does not seem to be working at all. If someone can
link me to a good example I can figure it out from there, but I
don't seem to be able to find it. Here is my code so far:
<cfquery name="getAttorney" datasource="agreement">
Select * from Attorney where ID = #Form.attorney#
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="getAttorney">
<cfset attornyInfo =
"#Name#
#email#
#Phone#">
</cfoutput>
<CFTRY>
<!--- If it exists, connect to it --->
<CFOBJECT
ACTION="CONNECT"
CLASS="Word.Application"
NAME="objWordApp"
TYPE="COM">
<CFCATCH>
<!--- The object doesn't exist, so create it --->
<CFOBJECT
ACTION="CREATE"
CLASS="Word.Application"
NAME="objWordApp"
TYPE="COM">
</CFCATCH>
</CFTRY>
<CFSCRIPT>
/* This will open Word if running locally */
objWordApp.Visible = true;
/* This returns the 'Documents' collection the Word Object
thisDoc = objWordApp.Documents.add();
/* Save the document to a location */
thisDoc.SaveAs("c:\MyDoc.doc");
docRange = thisDoc.Range(0);
docRange.Style=-2;
docRange.InsertAfter("Header1");
docRange.InsertParagraphAfter();
docRange.Style=-3;
docRange.InsertAfter("I am the paragraph you requested");
docRange.InsertBreak();
docRange.InsertAfter("check me out... I'm on the second
page!");
para1 = thisdoc.paragraphs.count();
data = docrange.listparagraphs();
data1 = docrange;
/* Save the changes */
thisDoc.Save();
/* Close the document */
thisDoc.Close();
/* Quit Word */
objWordApp.Quit();
</CFSCRIPT>
<cfdump var="#para1#">
<cfdump var="#data#">
<cfdump var="#data1#">
The dumps do dump information on the related objects, giving
me methods, puts and gets, but I need more explantion than what is
actually provided. Para1 used to dump "1" even though I had more
paragraphs than that in the build. Since I upgraded to 2007, I have
not gotten it not to error out, I will try to save it as a docx,
but a doc is really more appropiate for my purposes.
Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

The last time I had to deal with a requirement like this,
which was
about 2000-2001, we eventually scrapped the word COM thing.
Even then
it was such a fragile and perilous solution, fraught with
problems and
headaches.
What we ended up doing, that was much easier, was to create a
.rtf, rich
text format, file. We could do all the required formating in
this
format, and 90% of the uses would have this file open in MS
Word and not
even know they did not get a .doc file.
How we did it was create a .rtf template with dummy text that
had all
the desired formating. Then we could read in the .rtf file,
which is
just a marked-up text file, not a binary, and string replace
the dummy
text with the dynamic text. Save it again and viola a rich
text
formated file with the required content.
These days, I would push for doing this in PDFs and use
ColdFusion's
<cfdocument...> and|or <cfpdf...> functionality.
But if it has to be
Word, I suppose it has to be Word.