WriteToWordFromMatlab

Automatically create MS Word documents from Matlab with figures, tables, headers and text.

Description

This m-file is a modification of the 'save2word'. It's an example of how to automatically create MS Word documents from MATLAB with figures, tables, headers and text.

The different basic functionalities to add text with different style and to add figures are broken into sub-functions that can be used in a simple way.

Acknowledgements

Saveppt and Save2word inspired this file.

This file inspired Wordreport.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5.1 (R13SP1)
• Other requirements: Microsoft Word

[Rogier]

For use with Word2010, I removed/commented the following rule in function WordText:

actx_word_p.Selection.Font.Color='wdColorAutomatic';%set back to default color

Works great and saves lots of time.

[Rogier]

 

[Bernd]

very nice structure of code and easy to understand and use. However the hard coded format styles for headings and text styles make it hard to ease automatic doc generation for our multi-cultural office environments ;)
...however I cannot blame to the author of this code for this!

[Andreas Karlsson]

Adam, try this.
ActXWord.Selection.InsertBreak(3);

It can be found if you look into the list of selection-methods created by the script in its TestDoc.doc

Here is a link to the wdBreak enumeration
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195905.aspx

[Adam]

This is really good, but I'm experiencing a problem inserting a section break into word.

I've recorded a macro, which used the VB command:
Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdSectionBreakContinuous

However, my Matlab version :
set(actx_word_p.Selection.InsertBreak,'Type','wdSectionBreakContinuous')

returns an error "One or more output arguments not assigned during call to "InsertBreak". "

Can you see something obvious that I'm missing?

[Greg Imamura]

 

[Todd Brintlinger]

Sorry about multiple submissions.
Actxserver object had trouble creating files that do not already exist because of trouble/corruption with MAPI32.dll, which is called from Outlook, not Word.? If the file already exists (e.g. TestDoc.doc), it worked no problem.
I have not tried fixing MAPI32.dll, but that may solve problem.

[Todd Brintlinger]

 

[Ran]

it doesn't work with office 10
this is the error i receive
??? Invoke Error, Dispatch Exception:
Source: Microsoft Word
Description: ???? ??? ????? ???? ????.
Help File: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\1037\wdmain10.chm
Help Context ID: 62e2

Error in ==> WriteToWordFromMatlab>WordText at 198
actx_word_p.Selection.Style = style_p;

Error in ==> WriteToWordFromMatlab at 29
WordText(ActXWord,TextString,Style,[0,2]);%two enters after text

[Santosh]

 

[Andreas Karlsson]

In here again checking out what happened during the years. THANKS for all the nice comments!
For Mr. Dirk Z I can say that you should open the file and read the comments. That will give you the hint of doing a search/replace - easy. Read Dimitri Gabris comment from 11 Apr 2006...
After a lot of years as a Matlab/Simulink-programmer I'm now a consultant programming in other languages. Missing the power of Matlab.
If you need help with some Matlab/Simulink coding I would be glad to help...

[benharper1977]

thank you very much Andreas, your script saves me a lot of time in doing copy&paste with many figures...you're a hero to me.

[Karel Macek]

Very usefull.

[Yuval Ben-Dov]

Great functionality, easy to follow, thanks for sharing!

[Dirk Z]

really a good script.
The problem is that the Goto function with wdGoToBookmark as target does not work.
Can anyone help?

[B M]

only works in english office installations...
so you need to do a lot of hard-coding. On my pc i have a dutch word, my boss an english word .. not easy

[Tobias C]

Maybe the most useful script at Matlab central. Well written code with good comments.

[Thorbjorn Knudsen]

gr8! thx

T

[Ramon Planas]

Great code!! Thanks very much

[c r]

Your code maved me lots of time. Thanks!.

[E B]

 

[Joseph nonereally]

This is a great piece of example code. Thank you Andreas.

[Jiabei Yuan]

If there is a rating over 6, I'll never rate this code with 5!!!

[Axel Kiefer]

I fully agree with prevoius raters. Andreas work is EXCELLENT. It saved a lot of time.

[Dimitri Garbi]

That is exactly what I was looking for. The code allow to generate generic reports automatically. Thank you !

note : Styles must be adapted in order to have no error. 'Heading 1' in english correspond to 'Rubrik 1' in swedish (as commented) and to 'Titre 1' in french.

[Theo Venter]

This is excellent. Thanks

[E TK]

Very nice, easy to use and intuitive interface. It does exactly what you would expect. Thanks for posting!