Microsoft Word automation

[docHoliday]

Hey Gang,

I've been using a nifty bit of code to incorporate Word's spell checker into my program and it works great with Word95 and 97, but I'm starting to receive automation errors with Word2000. I'm not familiar with the major changes in Word2000 as far as automating tasks goes, so if anyone has any suggestions and/or code ideas to help fix this error, I'd be very appreciative. Also, if anyone has been playing with OfficeXP, I'd really like to prepare the code for either automating with that version, or at least ignoring it until which time I can figure out it's automation scheme. Thanks in advance.

WORD SPELL CHECK AUTOMATION CODE:

Private Function FN_SpellCheck(strTextToVerify As String) As Boolean
On Error GoTo FN_SpellCheckErr

Dim oWord As Object
Dim strSelection As String
Set oWord = CreateObject("Word.Basic")
With oWord
  .AppMinimize
  .FileNewDefault
  .EditSelectAll
  ' done immediately before to minimize possibility of user
  ' interaction with the clipboard
  Clipboard.Clear
  Clipboard.SetText strTextToVerify, vbCFText
  .EditPaste
  .StartOfDocument
  On Error Resume Next
  .ToolsSpelling
  On Error GoTo 0
  .EditSelectAll
  .EditCOPY
  strSelection = Clipboard.GetText(vbCFText)
  If Mid(strSelection, Len(strSelection), 1) = Chr(13) Then
    strSelection = Mid(strSelection, 1, Len(strSelection) - 1)
  End If

  If Len(strSelection) > 1 Then
    strTextToVerify = strSelection
    FN_SpellCheck = True
  End If
  
  .FileCloseAll 2
  .AppClose
End With
Set oWord = Nothing

txtFile.Text = strSelection
MsgBox ("Spell Check is complete"), vbInformation
Exit Function

FN_SpellCheckErr:
    MsgBox ("SpineText encountered the following error while attempting to spell check your file" _
    & ", Error #" & Err.Number & " " & Err.Description), vbExclamation
    Exit Function
End Function

When the form loads, I use this function to test for Word:

If IsAppPresent("Word.Document\CurVer", "") Then
End If

Public Function IsAppPresent(strSubKey$, strValueName$) As Boolean
IsAppPresent = CBool(Len(GetRegString(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, strSubKey, strValueName)))
End Function

[docHoliday]

Any body have any ideas on this one? Does anyone know of an Office Developer forum that might be able to lend some advice?