How to use OLE automation in Visual FoxPro with Microsoft Word

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1. Create the mail merge document in Microsoft Word. Start with a new document in Microsoft Word. Format the document as follows:

         Contact
         Company
         Phone
   
         Dear greeting,
   
         <This is the body of the form letter.>
   
         Sincerely,
   
         <Your Company Name>

   Create bookmarks for Contact, Company, Phone, and greeting.
   1. Select the item in the document. For example, select Contact. Click Edit or click Insert depending on your version of Word, and then click Bookmark.
   2. Type the bookmark name, such as contact, and then click Add. The bookmark name should be the same as the item selected. Repeat this for all four items.
   3. Save the Microsoft Word Document as Wordole.doc in the Vfp\Samples\Data directory.
2. Create the OLE Automation program in Visual FoxPro. Create a new program in Visual FoxPro with the following code:
   
   If you are using Word 6.0 or Word 95, use the following code:

        PUBLIC oWordObj, ver_info
   
         ver_info=IIF("06."$VERSION(),6,5)
         IF ver_info=6
            OPEN DATA home(2)+"data\TestData.dbc"
         else
            OPEN DATA SYS(2004)+"\samples\data\TestData.dbc"
         endif
         USE Customer
   
         oWordObj=CREATEOBJECT("Word.Basic")
   
         IF ver_info=6
            oWordObj.FileOpen (home(2)+"data\wordole.doc")
         ELSE
            oWordObj.FileOpen (SYS(2004)+"samples\data\wordole.doc")
         ENDIF
   
         oWordObj.EditGoto ("contact")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Contact)
         oWordObj.EditGoTo ("company")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Company)
         oWordObj.EditGoTo ("phone")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Phone)
         oWordObj.EditGoTo ("greeting")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Contact)
   
         oWordObj.FilePrint
   								

   If you are using Word 97 or Office Word 2003 , use the following code:

         PUBLIC oWordObj, ver_info
   
         ver_info=IIF("06."$VERSION(),6,5)
         IF ver_info=6
            OPEN DATA home(2)+"data\TestData.dbc"
         else
            OPEN DATA SYS(2004)+"\samples\data\TestData.dbc"
         endif
         USE Customer
   
         oWordObj=CREATEOBJECT("Word.Basic")
   
         IF ver_info=6
            oWordObj.FileOpen (home(2)+"data\wordole.doc")
         ELSE
            oWordObj.FileOpen (SYS(2004)+"samples\data\wordole.doc")
         ENDIF
   
         oWordObj.ww7_EditGoto ("contact")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Contact)
         oWordObj. ww7_EditGoTo ("company")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Company)
         oWordObj. ww7_EditGoTo ("phone")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Phone)
         oWordObj. ww7_EditGoTo ("greeting")
         oWordObj.Insert (Customer.Contact)
   
         oWordObj.FilePrint
   								

3. Save and run the program.

Result When you run the program, the form letter should print using data from record one in the Customer table.

By removing the Open Data and Use Customer commands, you could call this program from a form that was based on the customer table. If the program is called from the click event of a command button, the form letter would be printed using data from the current record in the customer table.