[Lazarus] Interact with M$ Word

[Bart]

@tiziano
> If the dimensions of your table are fixed, there is another method that
>  avoids you lot af headaches: build the document you need with word, put
>  into the cells special tags, i.e: %r01c01, %r02c01,..., an so on.
>
>  Then save the document as rtf (rich text format) so your program can
>  read in the file, substitute the tags with your values and save it again.
>
Unfortunately this requires that the enduser (te ones with the word
document) somehow insert the modified RTF file in the document. That's
gonna be a disaster...

@Hans-Peter
> Better stay away from creating data structures for external applications
> - this approach most probably will fail with the next Word version :-(
That sucks (well, it is M$)

> Even if you intend to bind your customers to updates of your program,
> you'll have to determine the installed Word version at runtime, and
> provide the code for *every* supported version.
That sucks even more.

Could I put a table as HTML on the clipboard? Word will interpret that
as a table and happily paste it.

Bart