Best way to work with a Word doc in another language, WAS: Accessing Python or DLLs from Word "Goran" <goran[ at ]bokverket.com> 05.03.2006 10:24:32 I wrote: I am experimenting with an app which is to process large Word doc's, and needs the dictionary objects available in Python (and C++).Jezebiel wrote: Jezebiel answered. Don't know anything about Python. You can register a DLL (or any compliant library file) in VBA through Tools > References. The functions within the DLL can then be called from within VBA. They don't appear directly as macros. You need to write wrapper functions (ie a macro that calls the DLL function). Thanks much. I wonder if both the following skeleton code ideas are possible; and if there is a large overhead for each access to Word in the first one which gets one word at a time. '*** First idea VBA Wrapper: StartDLL(pointertocurrentWordDocument) Inside DLL: Word.getNextWord(pointertocurrentWordDocument) until endofdoc // Do whatever processing is needed '*** Second idea VBA Wrapper: StartDLL(currentWordDocument) ' i.e. throw over the whole document right away Inside DLL: currentWordDocument.processWord until endofdoc Best, Goran (This is a re-send since I didn't manage to give the previous one a subject line)

Re: Best way to work with a Word doc in another language, WAS: Accessing Python or DLLs from Word "Oliver Townshend" <oliveratzipdotcomdotau> 05.03.2006 11:30:17 [Quoted Text] > I am experimenting with an app which is to process large Word doc's, and > needs the dictionary objects available in Python (and C++).Jezebiel wrote: Don't know much about Python. A Google search reveals the following useful link http://www.bstpierre.org/Projects/msword.py which may be helpful. > Thanks much. I wonder if both the following skeleton code ideas are > possible; and if there is a large overhead for each access to Word in the > first one which gets one word at a time. Doing it from inside Word might work. Alternative would be to open the word document from inside python, and read through the activedocument structure, pulling in words and then closing the document. Generally you'll want to read up on the stuff at the msdn site and the like which has examples in C# and VBA, and convert these to python. All you need are the type library definitions in Word. Oliver Townshend