How do you reference a collection using OleGetProperty. Specifically I need to access the second document in a Documents collection.

vb example:

Set owrdApp=CreateObject("Word.Application")

Set owrdDoc=owrdApp.Documents.Open(strMainDoc)

owrdDoc.MailMerge.Execute 0

owrdApp.Documents(1).PrintOut False ' (1) used as the 2'nd element.

OI example:

owrdApp=OLECreateInstance("Word.Application")

owrdDoc=OleGetProperty( owrdApp, 'Documents')

thisDoc=OleCallMethod(owrdDoc, "Open", strMainDoc)

mailMerge=oleGetProperty( thisDoc, "MailMerge")

val=oleCallMethod(mailMerge,"Execute", 0)

doc1=oleGetProperty(owrdApp,"Documents",1) *;this line doesn't work

val=oleCallMethod(doc1,"PrintOut", false)

The problem is doc1 is never assigned a value. I think I have the correct syntax eventhough the documentation does not show a 3rd parm on olegetproperty there are examples on the works for Excel.

How do I reference the second element in the Documents collection?

Thanks,

John

Posted too soon here is the answer…

docs=oleGetProperty(owrdApp,"Documents")

doc1=oleCallMethod(docs,"Item",1)

val=oleCallMethod(doc1,"PrintOut", false)

turns out "Item" is a Method not a property… the specific document is returned in the olecallmethod and can then be used in subsequent olecallmethods.

HTH.

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