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We are developing software with word-automation calling winword by ole-Connection.
Excample: wordapp:=CreateOleObject('Word.Application')
This works fine with office 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 but it doesn't work with microsoft office 365.
Customers even told us, that there is no winword.exe starting by calling winword.exe with then commandline from windows startmenu.
Is there no automation interface in office365 and all programm with word-automation have to die?
We need help to connect with word under office365
@Klaus_123
As tag "Office deployment" focus on general questions of Office desktop clients, but your issue is more about Word development, I would remove it.
Thanks for your understanding.
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That is certainly not generally true.
For example I am running this VBA code from Access:
Dim o As Object
Set o = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Debug.Print o Is Nothing
Set o = Nothing
It prints "False", proving the object was created. Both Word and Access are Office 365.
What you are seeing may be a bitness issue, or it can be a sandbox issue. You did not say what kind of app yours is.
it's a delphi-application.
Here some code to find the word-version:
function GetInstalledWordVersion: string;
var
word: OLEVariant; s:string;
begin
try
word := CreateOLEObject('Word.Application');
except wordversion:=' Kein Word installiert'; word:=unassigned; exit; end;
s:=inttostr(word.version);
if ( pos('.',s)=0 ) and (length(s)>2) then
s:=copy(s,1,2)+'.'+copy(s,3,1);
result := s;
wordversion:=s; // Globale Variable
word.Quit;
word := UnAssigned;
end;
The result ist "Kein Word installiert".