I'm taking a guess here, because the MS Word Viewer 2003 exe is wordview.exe and not word.exe, wouldn't that change the class in the object call to wordview.application?
just a shot in the dark.. Chuck Weidler wrote: > I want to open a MS Word Document (.doc) file and get the contents of the > file. The issue that I'm having is that on our server we have MS Word Viewer > 2003 installed and I cannot figure out how to create or connect to this com > object. The code I have works perfectly on the workstation, but I have the > regular MS Office 2003 installed. So locally the creation and connection to > winword.exe is great, but on the server I get the following error. The code > that creates the object or connects to the existing object is below the > error. Thanks in advance for any help on this issue. > > ERROR - > > Details: The cause of this exception was that: java.lang.Exception: Invalid > COM object. > Message: An exception occurred when instantiating a COM object. > > CODE - > > <cflock name="ObjectConnectionCreation" type="exclusive" timeout="120"> > <cftry> > <cfobject type="com" > action="connect" > class="Word.application" > name="MyWordobj" > context="local"> > <cfcatch> > <cfobject type="com" > action="Create" > class="Word.application" > name="MyWordobj" > context="local"> > </cfcatch> > </cftry> > > <cfset mywordobj.visible = False> > </cflock> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311412 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
