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Office Automation App In Folder Question

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Subject: Office Automation App In Folder Question
From: Jay Wooten <jwooten at cfl dot rr dot com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:28:40 -0500
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We need to take data from our app and merge it into a Word document.

It is functioning now with the Office Classes RB provides (and/or OLE), but we feel that having to copy our app into the Microsoft Office/Office folder is silly. We don't want our end users to have to do that.

Has anyone come up with an Office Automation solution where you *don't* have to copy your app into the Microsoft Office/Office folder?

It can obviously be done - Quickbooks, Account Edge and a bunch of others export their data right into Office without having to put the app in that folder.

Is AppleScript a solution? Applescript support is limited in Office 2001 and X but is very powerful in 2004.

Do we need to have a separate app that installs into the Office folder that we can pass data to and then it passes data to Office?

Is there another way?


Suggestions are appreciated.


Jay Wooten, President
Visual Dynamics, Inc.  -  Authorized Apple Specialist
www.visdyninc.com
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