RE: Word Document

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can launch Word from your program (or a CL program) using the
RUNRMTCMD command and have it open a template file.  For example,
this will open a template under Win2K:

C:\>start "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword" "C:\Program
Files\
Microsoft Office\Templates\Memos\Elegant Memo.dot"

Now, as far as passing data to a template -- its likely that you
would need some sort of a PC program that understands OLE and
could communicate with Word.  This is not possible from within
AS/400 Cobol.

Another option would be to build your own template on the AS/400
with the data elements pre-filled and send it to the PC. Its
doubtful anyone would want to attempt this with a proprietary
MS format :(

Terry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taylor, Mike [mailto:Mike.Taylor@aig.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:03 AM
> To: 'cobol400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: Word Document
>
>
>
> I would like to call a word document template from my program
> and populate
> certain fields(Name, Address etc). Is this possible? If so how?
>
> Thanks
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