Since I use XP and Office2003,old programs in LabView7 to control word97 fail

[lele]

Since I installed in my PC Windows XP and Office 2003 (from Windows 98 and Office 97) my old programs in LabView 7.0 to control Word 97 (for instance the mail merge function) don't work anymore.
I think it's a problem with the methods of ActiveX functions I use, but I can't find help or information for this new methods in the LabView help.
Could it be I can't use LabView 7.0 to control Word2003?. Perhaps I need a newer version of LabView to work with Office 2003.
I thank a lot any information about this topics.

LAURA
CESVA intruments s.l.

[LV_Pro]

You shouldn't have problems with LabVIEW 7.0, it isn't very old. I'm not sure what problems code written to talk to the earlier version of Office might be having. Can you post a sample of the code that doesn't work? If you can use "Save with options" and save it in the Development Distribution. Also zip the resulting ".llb" file to reduce it in size.


P.M.

[P. Jack]

There's no problem with LabVIEW. The problem is with the properties and methods that the Office are exposing. There are properties and methods that Microsoft adds, deletes or alters when they change version. You can surf Microsoft to track these changes.

Changing OS version, on the other hand, mainly affects the Call Library Functions.

JackMe

[Diego_M]

Hi Laura,

Maybe this link may be useful in order to know the methods/properties available to you using a Microsoft Office ActiveX

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/C4ABFFC75C5E6A7186256C4B0083BF3C?OpenDocument
(Choose this way: Office Solutions Development>>Office 2003>>VBA language Reference ....)

Regards

Diego M.