Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro

2017-07-07 02:10:07

Office resources

As with FoxPro, you can find help for the Office products on CompuServe. Also like FoxPro, the forums that support Office were consolidated in late 1999. The new home for Office is MSOForum, and it includes sections for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and several other related products. Best of all, as with FoxPro, the people who hang out there are warm, friendly, and helpful. To get there on the web, point to go.compuserve.com/msofficeforum?loc=US.

The Microsoft public newsgroups on msnews.microsoft.com include groups for all the Office products. They re spread out all over the server, but look for groups with the various product names in their names plus strings like "vba" or "programming" or "automation." Don t be too choosy, though it appears that there s a single group for all PowerPoint questions called microsoft.public.powerpoint.

Woody Leonhard has been writing about Word and the other Office products practically since before we even heard of them. His web site, www.wopr.com, offers discussion groups for the Office products, as well as a pair of newsletters, Woody s Office Watch and Woody s Windows Watch, and more.

Many of the Microsoft MVPs have web sites that provide tips, tricks, and code. Rather than trying to provide a comprehensive list here of the Office-related sites, we re pointing you to a site that contains such a list and gets updated occasionally. Our thanks to Karl Petersen for maintaining this list. Check out www.mvps.org/links.html for links to sites about not just Office, but pretty much any Microsoft product you can think of.

Finally, if all else fails, don t forget to try the search engines, particularly those that archive newsgroup postings. With the worldwide distribution of the tools we re working with, it is a rare day that you encounter a problem someone has not seen, if not solved.

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