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Uniform way to print office documents programatically

Using Microsoft interOp objects, there is a way to programmatically print word or Excel document. Is there any simpler and uniform way to programatically print all types of documents (.txt, .doc, .xls, .pdf..) ? ...

Writing data to cells in Excel 2007 / PowerShell

Hello, Why can I not write values to Excel using the Worksheet class, or Sheet interface? I would expect to be able to do something like this: [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel") $Excel = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass $Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Add() $Worksheet = $...

What is the difference between Office Automation, VSTO, and Open XML SDK?

What is the difference between Office Automation, VSTO, and Open XML SDK? Do we need all of them or some of them are obsolete? ...

How to disable conversion message when opening Office 2007 doc using Office 2003?

I am working on a C# application which opens Excel workbooks using Interop. It works fine except for one annoyance: when opening an Excel 2007 document on a machine using Excel 2003, a small message pops up saying "File conversion in progress". Does anyone know of a way to prevent that message from appearing at all? ...

Building Web Content and Word Documents

What is the best tool for breaking down Word docs into a series of strong, em, a, br, and p tags. I'd like to drop all other info. The built-in Word 2007 "Filtered" HTML "Save As" doesn't work that well. Other ideas? ...

having problem in opening Ms Office files into webBrowser

Hi, im trying to Open multiple Ms Office files like Excel,PowerPoint & Word in my webBrowser, it works fine when im using Ms Office 2003 in other pc, but when i try to run the same application in another pc having Ms Office 2007 then instead of showing the MS Office file in webBrowser, it Opens the file in Ms Office. Does anyone know the...

Officewriter Excel Report - bc30277 Type character '!' does not match

Hi guys, i have an officewriter report that i am trying to publish to SQL Reporting services through excel. This is a parameterized report with just 1 input parameter. When i click on 'Publish' in officewriter toolbar, there is an error. It says 'the value expression for the query parameter '@test' contains an error: [bc30277] Type cha...

How to read, edit and write xls files, and then export to SQL Server

I have an excel file that have the list of contacts( about 10 k of them) that I need to push into my SQL Server database. So, I am writing an .net windows program using visual studio 2008 to read the files, generate random password for each contact, and then push these information in to my SQL Server database. It was easy to handle excel...

Problem Getting Page Count for office(excel) documents using DSOFile.OleDocumentPropertiesClass

I am using DSOFile.OleDocumentPropertiesClass for getting the page count for office documents without automation. This works fine for docx and pptx files but returns always 0 for xlsx files. DSOFile.OleDocumentPropertiesClass oleDocument = new DSOFile.OleDocumentPropertiesClass(); oleDocument.Open(documentFilePath, true, DSOFile.dsoFile...

Accessing Excel 2007 file format with OLEDB

I'm currently trying to access an excel 2007 file on a server that doesn't contain Microsoft Office on it. My connectionstring is something like this. String connString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source=" + file_path + ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;"; But this is for 2003 format, which works fine. I would li...

C#: Getting the number of rows/columns with ExcelPackage

I need to read and write data from an Excel spreadsheet. Is there a method to finding out how many rows/columns a certain worksheet has using ExcelPackage? I have the following code: FileInfo newFile = new FileInfo(@"C:\example.xlsx"); using (ExcelPackage xlPackage = new ExcelPackage(newFile)) { Exce...

Beginner at Microsoft Office Macros

Actually, I'm not a beginner. I know nothing about them, though I do have some programming background. This is the thing: I have a couple of Word documents and an Excel spreadsheets. The documents need to grab some data from the spreadsheet and then print. There needs to be one document per spreadsheet row, and they need to be printed a...

Need advice on new development system and OS

Hi, I am going to be starting a new job soon and the company has previously had hobbyist developers working on their applications and as such not had to worry about supplying equipment for the developers. Having spoken to them they seem to understand that I will need a reasonable system in order to ensure I am both as productive as pos...

Where can I use Office Web applications

Hello, I hear Microsoft released a beta version of Office Web applications. Where is it? Thanks! ...

Use Live Client ID SDK in ASP.NET application to use OfficeLive webservices.

Dears I want to connect to an officelive webservice from my custom external ASP.NET Application and I found that it would be possible to use the Live ID Client SDK to authenticate Windows based to use Office Live webservices. In fact, I tried to use the Live ID Client SDK in my webapplication but I ran into a threading problem while I ...

Linux based MS Office thumbnail generation

I've been taken on board to work on a PHP based web application. One part of the application generates thumbnail images for MS Office documents on demand, and it uses MS Office + the VeryPDF docprint utility to do this. Because of this one requirement, the system is running on Windows Server 2003 + IIS. I would prefer to have the syst...

Converting Word doc to tiff

I run Word 2003 in unattended process to convert a word doc file into a tiff. Word is configured to print to Microsoft Office Document Image driver and then pick up the generated file. It works fine on a 32 bit OS. Now we need to migrate this app on a 64 bit OS and it looks like there is no such driver in the Office 2003 installation on...

Grayscale printing in Word 2007 from C#

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to create a Word Template. I created a Ribbon with to buttons: print in color, print in B&W. I use the Document.printout() function to print the document. How can I set the printer to Grayscale printing from code? I don't want to use the printDialog. I tried to use this: PrinterSettings settings = new Pr...

VSTO C#: How to disable the popup (tooltip) on a Ribbon Button

Hello, I developed a plugin for outlook 2007 that adds a button to the office ribbon. I wanted to know if there is any possibility (programmatically) to not show the popup message when hoovering over the button with the mouse pointer. When I hover over the button, a little popup (tooltip) with the following text is displayed: MyAddinN...

Embedding a SWF in PowerPoint with VSTO

I was wondering if there is someway to embed a Flash Shockwave Object or .SWF file in PowerPoint (Presentation) 2007 and higher version, i.e. inside the ".pptx" format. By embed I mean when I save the presentation,close it . i wont be needing the the .swf file again. That way I can share the presentations with others. If I use this lin...