Opening a .doc Document in ASP

[CAT2188]

HI

I should like to provide individual itineraries for delegates who come to a meeting that we organise through http://www.ntam.org.uk

I would like to open a word document, insert the individual's details and allow the client to view it.

I seem to be stumbling at the first hurdle! When I use:
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Dim objWord

' create object
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

' open word template
With objWord
.Visible = True
.Documents.Add CurrentProject.Path & "path and filename here.doc"
End With
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I get the error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad'

ActiveX component can't create object: 'Word.Application'

I've tried altering the path but it seems to be a problem with creating the object. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Tony

PS I'm hardly ASP literate let alone .NET!!

[WhiskyFudge]

I am not an ASP expert by far (.net man). But my understanding is that Word.Application would require MS Word to be installed on the host machine. This isn't and never will be the case with Cat2 servers.

From experience editing word documents through a website is not an easy task. I have done it one project, (due to the use of 3rd party components and their bizzar permission requirements, it would not work on Cat2s servers). Point being is that it took me around 3 solid days to do the smallest bit of editing. My advice is find another alternative!

Office 2007 and it's new ZIP compressed XML based document format will make editing documents infinitely better. I also hope (although have not looked into it in the slightest), that Cat2 may be able to install Office Live Services on their servers.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

[CAT2188]

Thanks for your reply

I thought that's what someone might say! I've spent days Googling and there seem to be plenty of open threads that ask similar questions without any useful replies.

Thanks again

Tony