Export to Word 2007

Partners have a custom exporter that works when exporting to Word 2003, but fails for 2007. I'm trying to gather the details, but I wonder if anybody here had that experience and what they did to fix it? Is it possible that 2003 uses handle 'Word.Application' and 2007 uses some other handle?

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llandale - Wed Aug 19 18:15:59 EDT 2009

Re: Export to Word 2007
adevicq - Thu Aug 20 05:12:23 EDT 2009

Hi,

FYI: I'm a 2007 user an my export routines open Word as a standard "Word.Application" object.

Alain

Re: Export to Word 2007
llandale - Thu Aug 20 08:58:06 EDT 2009

Its DOORS v7.1. How can we make the v7.1 exporter work with Word 2007?

Re: Export to Word 2007
adevicq - Thu Aug 20 09:47:02 EDT 2009

llandale - Thu Aug 20 08:58:06 EDT 2009
Its DOORS v7.1. How can we make the v7.1 exporter work with Word 2007?

I'm using DOORS 8.3...

But if DOORS instantiates a COM object, it should work with any version of MS Word if the appname is "Word.Application" and if DOORS uses the COM interface.

Re: Export to Word 2007
kbmurphy - Thu Aug 20 19:29:39 EDT 2009

adevicq - Thu Aug 20 09:47:02 EDT 2009
I'm using DOORS 8.3...

But if DOORS instantiates a COM object, it should work with any version of MS Word if the appname is "Word.Application" and if DOORS uses the COM interface.

Chances are that this "custom" exporter is based on Telelogic's standard exporter.

I can tell you that DOORS 7.1 did not support Office 2007.

I remember having some issues even with DOORS 8.2 and Word 2007. I think 2007 wasn't officially supported until DOORS 8.3.

My advice is to start from scratch and see if you can instantiate a Word 2007 instance from DOORS and populate it with some text. From there you should have the key to make the custom export work.

Good luck.