by Kwame (1 Submission)
Category: OLE/COM/DCOM/Active-X
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Thu 26th July 2001
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Demonstrates how to save your text as a word file, and launch MS Word in Visual Basic with your typed text.
API Declarations
Dim msWord As Word.Application
VBcoders
'Note: place a command button on your form and name it cmdWrite.
' place a textbox on the form, set the multline to true if you want
' reference Microsoft Word 8.0 Object Library
' goto view code mode, copy the code, and paste it there and press f5.
' enjoy
Private Sub Form_Initialize()
Set msWord = New Word.Application
End Sub
Private Sub cmdWrite_Click()
cmdWrite.Enabled = False
Call msWord.Documents.Add
msWord.Selection.Shading.Texture = wdTexture22Pt5Percent
msWord.Selection.Font.Size = 15
msWord.Selection.Font.Bold = True
msWord.Selection.Font.Italic = True
Call msWord.Selection.TypeText(Text1.Text)
Call msWord.Documents(1).SaveAs("c:\kwame.doc")
msWord.Visible = True
' Call msWord.Quit 'uncomment if you don't want launch ms word
End Sub
Private Sub Class_Terminate()
Set msWord = Nothing
End Sub
No comments have been posted about Demonstrates how to save your text as a word file, and launch MS Word in Visual Basic with your typ. Why not be the first to post a comment about Demonstrates how to save your text as a word file, and launch MS Word in Visual Basic with your typ.