hello friends,

I am stuck in a problem. iam working on website using ASP. in that, i need to open a word document and populate some data to the word document. here is the first line of code i used:

Dim myword
set myword = createobject("Word.Application")
.
.
.

here is the error i got : "ActiveX component cannot create an object for 'Word.Application' "

so i tried with "server.createobject("Word.Application")".
but it gave me the same error. do anyone of think that i need a word application component(DLL library) for this? if so, where can i get it
and how to register in server? please reply me soon

Thank you for your considereation

santhosh

This is generally a permissions or security issue, have you tried searching in Google on the error message ?

hello Gregg

you mean there is no need of installing another dll library for managing Word application..? if it security issue, can you please tell mehow can we do it.

regards
joseph

Hi Santhosh,

I think you are trying to open a word document from your asp page and want to edit that document.

But I'm not clear whether you are trying to open it on server or client side.

Whereever you want to open you need to have ms-word installed on the computer. Without this you can not create word application object.

Supposing that you are trying to open client side, this is the way you can use.

You can test the code by creating a vbs file like this:
Open notepad and copy this code:

Dim w
set w=createobject("word.application")
w.documents.open(path of the doc in double quotes)
w.visible=true
set w=nothing

Save the file as .vbs. Execute it by double clicking. This should open the mentioned document in ms-word.


To use it in asp firstly, the internet settings is must:

1. In IE goto tools>>internet options>>security>>select intranet>>custom level.
2. Then enable/prompt the 'Initialize and Script activex controls not marked as safe'.

Note: I'm not sure whether you will be allowed to have ms-word on a webserver and open a document internally, if you are trying to do this on server side.

Hope this will help.

Any further assistance you post further.

M.L.Srinivas

Hi Srinivas,

Thank You for your help.
Srinivas, what iam trying to do is, i have a word document in web server. From browser, i want to send form letter(or notification letter) to our clients. what i want is, open the word document which is in webserver, populate some information from the ASP form to that word document and save it as(saveAs) new file in web server and send email to the particular client with the newly created document as attachment.

moreover do you any site from which we can get a free download for Word.Document component

hoping your reply soon
Thank You
Santhosh

Santhosh,

How about installing MS Office?

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hello Vijay,

thanks for hearing from you. Vijay, Iam still around in my problem. you mean install the whole MS Office package in server? see the problem is, I am already working on website. when i asked lots of our friends, i got 2 different kinds of answers. one group says install the ms word in web server. one group says install the DLL components probably(Word.Application) in server. what do you think? do you have any sound solution for this?

hoping reply soon from you
Santhosh

I am not sure what all DLLs would be involved to get that work, thats why I suggested install MS office. May be you can install Word alone from MS office. That should help.

Cheers!

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- Vijay G
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