Hey all,

I'm new to using the references and all to do things within VB.Net. What I'm trying to do is open Word 2003 from another program, without Word opening visibly to the user. I figure thats just an easy one line property change. However I'm not sure what references are needed. I have tried many ways and on several computers. I gave up on my last few projects and handed them off to another. I was told that I need to add the reference COM/PIA for the interop. I've searched the references and cannot find it. The furthest down the chain I seem to be able to get is Microsoft.Office and the only things found after Office is Core, which has nothing below it. I'ved asked a bunch of forums the same basic question and most of them say I'm doing it wrong and won't tell me the right way.

I have currently installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft Office Word 2003. There are no add-ons, plug-ins or the like installed on either. For an operating system I am running Windows MCE with a partitioned Ubuntu that I use for learning *nix and such. So all programming and the like is done on the Windows MCE platform.