ActiveX technologies which has been build upon COM, DCOM and OLE has brought a lot power to Visual Basic programming. Based on these technologies, Visual Basic is able to create applications for other MS Windows programs like MS Words, MS Excel, MS Access and etc. I have already illustrated how we can build Excel Applications using VB, here I will show you how to build word application. In order to write text to a MS Word document, you need to add a reference to the Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library from the project menu. The statement  Dim MyWord As Word.Application creates a reference to MS Word so that we can control MS Word through automation. The statement MyWord.Documents.Add add a document to the Documents Collection Word .  The following statements MyWord.Selection.Shading.Texture = wdTexture15Percent MyWord.Selection.Font.Size = 20 Format the text of the document. And finally teh statement MyWordDocuments(1).SaveAs ("D:\sample1.doc") Save the document as sample1.doc. You can open this file using MS Word.

Option  Explicit Dim MyWord As Word.Application 　 Private Sub Form_Initialize() Set MyWord= New Word.Application End Sub Private Sub cmdSave_Click() cmdSave.Enabled = False MyWord.Documents.Add MyWord.Selection.Shading.Texture = wdTexture15Percent MyWord.Selection.Font.Size = 20 mWord.Selection.TypeText (TxtEditor.Text) MyWordDocuments(1).SaveAs ("D:\sample1.doc") MyWordQuit End Sub