COM question

[David Lees]

Yes you are correct about the version.  You imply that something has to
have VBA for me to be able to talk to it using Python?  I thought I
could start up word from Python by just knowing it's COM name?  In fact,
I can find the CLSID in the registry, but have no idea how to use that
in place of "word.application".

Anyway, I installed python on my new machine which has Word 2000 and
have no problem getting the
win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application") example to work with it.

David Lees


Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote:
> 
> In article <390DACB0.9FCA96B3 at world.std.com>, David Lees wrote:
> > I have Word 7.0a, which I see references to with the Norton Registry
> > Browswer.  I am flying blind, not really understanding how COM objects
> > are denoted in the registry though.
> >
> > David Lees
> 
> Word 7.0a == Word 95.  A port of Word 6 to 32 bits (although MS would like
> you to believe otherwise... Well, OK, they added a few small things).
> 
> It doesn't have VBA; you'll have to create a Word.WordBasic object (I think)
> and work with that, passing it WordBasic statements.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
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