Shared Instance of MS Word?

[scorpion53061]

My boss indicated he was pleased with the reports that were being generated
in MS Word by me and that made me happy.

However he also told me he wants the wait eliminated for Word to start up. I
explained Word takes a while to start and that is why. He indicated I should
find a way for it to start in the beginning of hte program so users would
not have to wait to get their reports done. (In other words he would prefer
they wait at startup)

So here is my issue:

I need to find a way to make an instance of Word accessible to be called at
all times. The only catch is that those users who do not have the word
version I require (Word 2000 or above) the way it stands now are able to use
the rest of the software that does not require Word.

The way I am doing it now is to start the instance at the time of the report
request which is why it is taking so long to start.

Does anyone have ideas on this?

 

[Jonathan West]

At the start of your program, use CreateObject to create a new instance of
Word and assign it to an object variable. Then you use that object variable
whenever required.

 

[scorpion53061]

If I do that, if they do not have Word 2000 or above on their computer will
it bomb?

 

[Jonathan West]

If I do that, if they do not have Word 2000 or above on their computer will
it bomb?

You can trap the error and act accordingly if the appropriate version of
Word is not available. A way of doing that in VB6 can be found in the
following article

Determine If Word is Installed
http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_06/magazine/columns/qa/default_pf.aspx

I'm sure you will be able to adapt the code to VB.NET.

 

[scorpion53061]

For some reason my newsserver is delaying my responses. I am very sorry
about this.

If you see this please go to the thread RPC Server Error......

I already figured out the share issue.