Pass on variable from asp to MSWord...?

[StaffanG]

Hi!
We have an asp/sql application which handles registration of customers to various departments. etc. We need to send individual confirmations and invitations on printed paper. Wish to use MSWord 2003 with a preformatted template.

From the asp-application I wish to start Word, send in variables to the Word-doc (and print). Possible?

Alternatively I can start Word and send in one variable to a Word-macro which can handle the database request based on that variable.

Key questions:
1. How to start Word and pass on several variables to a document.
2. How to start Word and pass on one variable to a macro.

Can use asp, asp.net, php, javascript, vbscript...
We use IIS 6.0, IE6.0, Office 2003.
Have spent some time thinking of this problem and would appreciate your help.

[administrator]

Welcome to our forums!

I would advise to use a little different approach to produce your Word document. Instead of starting Word from ASP you can change the content type of the server response to application/vnd.ms-word.

Please check the following article to learn how to do this:

http://www.aspdev.org/articles/asp-export-word/

Let me know if you have any questions?



Cheers,
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