How To Use Code to Print a Word Document in a General Field

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This article was previously published under Q153675

SUMMARY

If a general field contains an embedded or linked Word document, you can print the Word document by using code and OLE automation.

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MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the behavior of embedded Word documents, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

105714 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/105714/EN-US/ ) Document Object Margins Default to Zero Inches

IMPORTANT: If you are using the APPEND GENERAL command, or Insert Object from the Edit menu in the general field to create a new Word document, the document may not print correctly if you do not follow the guidelines published in Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q105714 (see above). NOTE: This code sample only works with Word 95. It does not work with Word 97.

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Code Sample

The following code demonstrates how to print the document.

CREATE TABLE myword (wordfld G)
APPEND BLANK
APPEND GENERAL wordfld CLASS "Word.Document"
** The above lines are for demonstration only
** Normally the table will already exist and contain the document

frmDummy = CREATEOBJECT("Form")
frmDummy.ADDOBJECT("objWordDoc","OleBoundControl")
frmDummy.objWordDoc.ControlSource = "wordfld"
frmDummy.objWordDoc.DoVerb(1) &&starts an instance of Word
objWordInst = GETOBJECT("","Word.Basic") &&create a reference to Word
** set paper size - see Q121049 referenced above
objWordInst.FilePageSetup(,,"1","1",,"1","1","8.5 in","11 in")
objWordInst.Insert("Brown Shoes Don't Make It")
objWordInst.AppHide
objWordInst.FilePrint
WAIT WINDOW "Printing document" TIMEOUT 5
objWordInst.AppClose
RELEASE objWordInst

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