Opening Word Documents

[josmond]

Anybody know how to open a word document, find & replace, then save (in same format) from vb5>???

[hawker]

You need to add the Microsoft Word object library as a reference to your project.
to envoke an instance of Word:

dim wdApp as Word.Application
dim wdDoc as Word.Document

set wdApp = New Word.Application
set wdApp = New Word.Document

You can then control word via your VB app in a similar manner to that of macro-generated code. If you wish to to a find and replace type of command, record a macro to do it, examine the code, and this can be used (more or less) within your defined app/doc objects.

When your done, make sure vb does a

wdDoc.Close
wdApp.Quit

to close word down poperly.

[Nina]

Take a look at this vb-world article

http://www.vb-world.net/articles/wordreports/index.html

hope this helps!

[hawker]

I meant to say:

set wdApp=New Word.Application
set wdDoc=wdApp.Documents.Add

just testing......