Interfacing with Word

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I have a program that needs to produce reports in Microsoft Office Word. I
have Word 2007 installed on my computer. I add a COM reference to the
Microsoft Word Object Library to my program, but when I deploy the program to
a client with an earlier version of Word, they are unable to run the report.
What should I do to develop software that supports multiple versions of Word?
Install several versions of Office on my computer, or only the earliest?

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi,

Using earlier interop version should work on later version, but not vice
versa.

You can also try using late binding instead of early binding as this KB
described: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304661/
References:

#INFO: Develop Microsoft Office solutions with Visual Studio .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311452/
#SafeCOMWrapper - Managed Disposable Strongly Typed safe wrapper to late
bound COM - The Code Project - C# Programming
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/safecomwrapper.asp

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi,

Would you please reply here to let us know the status of this post? Thanks.
Regards,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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