Different versions of Word

[tmcnutt]

I have a VB app that modifies a Office 2000 Word document and it works fine on my development PC. I have installed it on several other test PCs with the following OS and Office version configurations and some of the installations fail when the Word document is accessed.

OS: Windows 2000
Office: Office 2000
Status: Works

OS: Windows 98
Office: Office 97
Status: Fails

OS: Windows 98
Office: Office 2000
Status: Works

OS: Windows XP
Office: Office XP
Status: Fails

The app runs find until I get to the Word section so I think it has to do with a DLL or some file related to Word. I ran dependency walker on the MSWORD9.OLB which showed no additional files. Is there an older file that I should use?
Any suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[tootired]

Hi,

This is mainly to sympathise with you. I have found that different versions of Word need different things written - I don't think it possible to write targetting all versions without all sorts of version dependencies.

My specific example concerns saving a file as HTML. The ActiveDocument.SaveAs function needs a FileFormat argument which is 102 in Word 97 and 8 in Word 2002.

Good luck! I think you'll need it.

Jonathan Clarke

 

[tazuk]

Hi --

Glad to see I'm not alone in experiencing the joys of Word automation.
I managed to get round compatibility problems in an app for users with Office 97 / Office 2000 installed by referencing MSWORD8.OLB and using non-version specific code. I did find some difficulties with the lower levels of the object model not being correctly implemented until Office 2000 SR1 along the way, and I'm afraid I don't know how big the compatibility gap is between Office XP and 97 though.

You'll also need to keep the document being modified as a Word 97 document if that's the earliest Office version your users have (IMO).

Like JC says, Good Luck !