F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming

Chapter 13. DRIVING OFFICE APPLICATIONS WITH AUTOMATION AND DDE

IN THIS CHAPTER

• UNDERSTANDING AUTOMATION

• EXAMINING THE OFFICE PRODUCTS' OBJECT MODELS

• USING AUTOMATION

• RUNNING OTHER APPLICATIONS FROM ACCESS WITH AUTOMATION

• USING AUTOMATION TO DRIVE ACCESS FROM MICROSOFT PROJECT

• USING AUTOMATION TO DRIVE OUTLOOK FROM ACCESS

• DRIVING OTHER APPLICATIONS WITH DDE

Interoperability is a major feature of the Office products. One kind of interoperability is working in one application, such as Access, and manipulating an object in another application, such as a document in Word. For example, interoperability lets you print an Access report to a Rich Text Format file, open a session of Word from Access with the report as its document, format the report in any ...