Resume Word Report

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I am currently having problems opening a Microsoft Word document in LabView. I currently have "lab reports" on my computer that were created from a different LV program. I want to open these Word documents in Labview and "resume" these documents by appending a new report to them.  Both the saved reports and new reports will have multiple pages of tables/graphs on each page.

I haven't started programming the rest of the project, as I am currently stuck on how to open/append a microsoft word document in Labview to alter. I tried using the Microsoft Insert Object vi, but this method inserts 1 (and only 1) page as an object and appends it to another report.

Any help would be appreciated!

[battler.]

Are you using Report Generation Toolkit or ActiveX with your Word doc?

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ActiveX

[Ray.R]

Do you want to add text to the existing report?

If so append object is not the way to proceed.

You can use ActiveX to include your text at a given location within Word and at the same time format the text.

There should be an example floating somewhere in the forum.

R

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The report has text, images, and tables.  And you are correct, the Insert Object vi inserts the first page as an object.  Currently I'm trying to figure out if I can get all the contents of the document and append it to another document (also which has multiple pages).

[Ray.R]

It's been a while since I've done this. 

From what I can remember, you may need to add / append your text, image(s) and table(s) in three different steps as they are not a common object. 

Otherwise it will add everything as a single image object which is not text for the text portion..  You already know that since you're posting the question. 😉

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Haha, indeed.  I was hoping you wouldn't say append them all seperately.  I suppose if this is the final method, I have no choice.  I'm still toying with it with no success (I'll post something when I run into a step towards the right direction). Any other suggestions? 

[Ray.R]

I don't think there is any other way...

[smercurio_fc]

This has been cross-posted on LAVA.