How to create report in WORD with VB6.0

Hello Brainyz,
Im using vb6.0 and oracle 9i as backend. I want to create some reports in WORD(doc format). for ex,

In word the report should be like this,

Patient Name:<<nameofpatient>>(this should come from textbox from VB)
Patient age <<age>> (age of the patient from VB textbox)

<<then reporting section>> text typed in VB


end of the report

The text editor should contain all the basic word options to edit.

This report should be saved in DATABASE.


How to do this?
any ideas, pls help me to solve this. Thank u.

Balamurugan.M

Welcome to the Forums.

You are wanting to create a similar word editor in your app or ???

sir, thanks for ur instant reply.

Yes i want similar editor as WORD, with bullets, Tables,etc

I know to make bold,underline in richtextbox control.

but how to use word for using reports? (using word as a report editor) from VB.

i want to open an existing word document in VB and editing some texts automatically.

for ex

(Beginning of the report

patient name:<<patient name>> (empty in template)
patient age :<<age>> (empty in template)

some texts

end of the report)


This is the template i want to save.

and when the user clicks a patientid and selects this template,
The <<patient name>> and <<age>> should be replaced with vb text values
and then the file should be saved in database.

How to do this?

First you will need to use the RichTextBox control instead of a regular textbox control. Not sure if you can do tables in a rtb control but are you going to be using any part of Word itsself?

Here is a rtb control tips and tricks codebank thread - http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=355994

It should provide helpful for most tasks you are wanting except the tables.

sir, thanks for ur instant reply.

I need tables to present in the report.

I know to make bold,underline in richtextbox control.

but how to use word for using reports? (using word as a report editor) from VB.

i want to open an existing word document in VB and editing some texts automatically.

for ex

(Beginning of the report

patient name:<<patient name>> (empty in template)
patient age :<<age>> (empty in template)

some texts

end of the report)


This is the template i want to save.

and when the user clicks a patientid and selects this template,
The <<patient name>> and <<age>> should be replaced with vb text values
and then the file should be saved in database.

How to do this?

You could nest the actual Word program itself but then you may have issues as Word is not designed to be nested inside another program. Also your end users will need their own licensed copy of Word installed on their systems.