<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Automation has nothing to do with VBA. That's the whole point of Automation, that it's language independent.<div><br></div><div>As Felipe rightly points out, many Laz users could profit from a library for creating office documents. Ideally it would have 3 notable characteristics:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Can create any type of office document programmatically without a particular office app or version being present. For word processing documents, RTF is perfect since it's a text format that is well supported by all word processors. FPC includes a unit for working with RTF documents. I created a thin wrapper for it that allows you to create RTF documents:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/XDev_Toolkit">http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/XDev_Toolkit</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(2) Can manipulate the resulting RTF file with the office app. On Windows, Automation works great for that purpose. Your only real challenges here are: (a) Figuring out a way to mark the place in the document where the table should be inserted. You can do this in a number of ways, for example if your app or your users create documents based on a template that you provide, you could insert a hidden bookmark in the template and look for this in the document's Fields collection via Automation. (b) FPC 2.2.2 does not fully support Automation yet, it appears.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You can insert text into a Word document from the clipboard via Automation with something like this:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">worddoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Paste;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To insert an RTF file into the document:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">worddoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.InsertFile(rtffilename, ConfirmConversions:=False); </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(3) Can do (2) across a variety of word processors in a cross-platform, cross-app way. This includes Word, OO and Apple's Pages. On Windows you can use Automation to manipulate both Word and OO. On OS X you can use AppleScript to manipulate word processors that include a dictionary of classes:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiplatform_Programming_Guide#Making_do_without_Windows_COM_Automation">http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiplatform_Programming_Guide#Making_do_without_Windows_COM_Automation</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-Phil</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div></div></body></html>