Use Template to open word document

[trillianguy]

I want to open a word document based on a template. I am using the following statements to do it, but get a type error. The ECG_REPORT_TEMPLATE is a text string of the filename.
error = CA_VariantSetCString (&wdECGTemplateVt, ECG_REPORT_TEMPLATE);

error = Word_DocumentsAddOld (docsHandle, NULL, wdECGTemplateVt,
CA_DEFAULT_VAL, &docHandle);

Is this the right function? Is there a more comprehensive description of the Word Object model available to figure out what these are and how to use the functions from LabWindows/CVI? Most the documentation is for VB and .Net on MS site.

[DaveC]

Trillian,

Here is link from Microsoft's website with the Word 2000 object model (and in fact this has the object models for all office 2000 applications as well).

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2000/all/solution/en-us/appendixes/partapp.mspx

Microsoft touts this as a VB object model, but in my experience with using MS Office ActiveX controls in LabWindows/CVI (In particular Visio 2003) these object models are just as useful for C as they are for VB.

Also, are you using a relative path for your template? I know in Visio, the path must be absolute when I load files otherwise an error was returned, so perhaps that is where your error is coming from. In order to simulate a relative path I kept the Visio file in a path relative to my executable and used the GetProjectDir() function to get the current directory the executable was in. From there I used strcat to build an absolute path from what is in reality a relative path.