Using the Free Version of MS Word 2003

[Andrew Mercer]

Hi,

I am dynamically building, printing and saving MS Word documents using
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.

All is fine except at the point of printing when users can in error alter
the text of a document that is being printed. I have already been advised
from this forum that I can set a param to prevent editing of each document
during printing (thankyou). I have done this and am testing at the moment.

However I have also seen that there is a free version of Ms Word.

Would this version allow the printing of documents created via
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word and also is it possible to select the correct
MS Word to do the correct action (Ie: Both versions of MS Word loaded on two
machines call one to edit/build documents call the other to print)

Thanks Andrew

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi,

I am dynamically building, printing and saving MS Word documents using
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.

All is fine except at the point of printing when users can in error alter
the text of a document that is being printed. I have already been advised
from this forum that I can set a param to prevent editing of each document
during printing (thankyou). I have done this and am testing at the moment.

However I have also seen that there is a free version of Ms Word.

Not quite correct. There is a free Word viewer, and there is a trial version
of Word sthat stops working after 30 days or so. The Word viewer has no
automation interface at all, and the trial version is indistinguishable from
the full version from an automation point f view - until it stops working
altogether.