Automation Dan Oren 5/6/2007 12:04:02 PM Hi, Is there away to do Word automation on a machine that does not have Office installation ? I want to generate a word document without enforcing the user to have Office installation on the machine the document is generated on it, is it possible and if so - Should i install some Dlls that will enable me to do so on the user machine? 10'X Dan Oren

Re: Automation "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 5/6/2007 3:04:49 PM Not possible -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dan Oren" <Dan Oren[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:79CFF97B-FC56-4600-9145-558A3E843AA7[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > Is there away to do Word automation on a machine that does not have Office > installation ? > I want to generate a word document without enforcing the user to have > Office > installation on the machine the document is generated on it, is it > possible > and if so - Should i install some Dlls that will enable me to do so on the > user machine? > > 10'X > Dan Oren

Re: Automation nagoff <nagoff[ at ]gmail.com> 5/29/2007 4:42:50 PM Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: [Quoted Text] > Not possible > Not quite impossibe, but at the very least tricky: Jakarta POI offers a pure java API called HWPF for reading/editing word documents: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hwpf/index.html HWPF appears unable to create a new document from scratch, but you can take an empty document, edit it and then write it out to a new file which achieves moreor less the same thing. The API is pretty basic but has worked for me on simple tasks before. The HWPF project seems to have stagnated recently though, so I'd be wary of using it as the base of anything large and/or mission critical. Alternatively, I believe you can use OpenOffice's UNO API to perform Word automation without Word. I've never tried this approach and would be interested to hear how it turns out if you try it. http://udk.openoffice.org/ Nagoff

Re: Automation "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 5/29/2007 9:09:47 PM I said ''Not Possible" because I am particularly wary of saying that something is "Impossible" though, I guess I am not sure of the difference <G>. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "nagoff" <nagoff[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:eKY6i.2874$E9.1428[ at ]newsfe6-gui.ntli.net... [Quoted Text] > Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: >> Not possible >> > > Not quite impossibe, but at the very least tricky: > > Jakarta POI offers a pure java API called HWPF for reading/editing word > documents: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hwpf/index.html > > HWPF appears unable to create a new document from scratch, but you can > take an empty document, edit it and then write it out to a new file which > achieves moreor less the same thing. The API is pretty basic but has > worked for me on simple tasks before. The HWPF project seems to have > stagnated recently though, so I'd be wary of using it as the base of > anything large and/or mission critical. > > Alternatively, I believe you can use OpenOffice's UNO API to perform Word > automation without Word. I've never tried this approach and would be > interested to hear how it turns out if you try it. > > http://udk.openoffice.org/ > > Nagoff > >