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(A. Russell Jones) Word automation has traditionally been the province of VB Classic developers, but it's alive and well in VB.NET—it's just a little different. Word automation is the process of using the classes and methods exposed by Word to create new Word documents or alter or manipulate existing Word documents.
In this article, you'll see how to get started with Word automation in VB.NET by exploring a process for transforming Word documents into customizable XML. The technique shown here doesn't rely on Word 2003's XML capabilities, so you can use it with any version of Word that supports automation. Most of the techniques you'll see apply generally to any application that needs to automate Word from within .NET |
