It has been a good (or bad) few years since I dealt with this sort of thing, but my experience then was that OLE into Word was on the fragile side. It would probably have been perfectly acceptable if there had been someone at the keyboard when the document was being generated, to deal with any random modal dialog Word decides to display. But in my case, the Word document was being generated overnight on an unattended server, and we found out about dialogs when users complained that they did not get their reports. We converted from OLE and Word to custom- (and probably badly- ) written Rich Text to deal with it. We actually called the files .rtf, and Word had no problem opening them.

I reiterate, though, that this was a few years back. I have no information on whether Word is better at this sort of thing these days.

In reply to Re^2: How can I create MS Word 2013 documents using Perl? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How can I create MS Word 2013 documents using Perl? by shajiindia

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