Microsoft Office Automation is a feature of the MS Office Component Object Model used to expose theirobjectsto development tools that support automation. For example, Microsoft Excel may expose workbooks, worksheets, charts, and cells. A Microsoft Word might expose objects such as an application, a document, or a selection. Those exposed objects allow other application to manipulate…
Winsoft’s Direct Office is a nice third party solution which bypasses the middle-man – namely Word – to create, open, and save DOCX documents.
DOCX is a standardized file format. It can be read using Libre Office, SoftMaker’s TextMaker and on-line Google…