Word report with ActiveX

Question

I would like to generate a report in Word via ActiveX. I found an
example on NI's site that should make it fairly easy. However, I
noticed that some of Word's ActiveX methods parameters have changed
between whichever version the example was written with and Word 2000.
(With Word97, the example runs fine, so it may have been written for
that version. If Word 2000 is on the machine, you need to reset the
method nodes the refresh the parameters list.) My problem is that the
target machine will be using Word 7a, installed on a server not on the
local machine. So I have two questions:
Does anyone know how stable the ActiveX interface was between Word 7a
and Word 97?
When Word is installed on a server enterprise-wide, and th
e computer
starts it up over the network, will the ActiveX components be registered
on the local computer?
Thanks in advance,
Dave Thomson
David Thomson Original Code Consulting
National Instrument Alliance Program Member
www.originalcode.com
[email protected] 303-499-1973 (voice and fax)

Answer 1

This should be pretty easy to do with the LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for MS Office:
http://www.ni.com/toolkits/report_gen.htm
In fact, the toolkit includes the MS Office Express VI, where you can specify a template document, and you can wire in whatever values you want inserted at certain bookmarks in the document.
Let me know if you have any other questions,
-D
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman