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

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
saveppt, save2word
This submission has inspired the following:
wordreport

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

[E TK]

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

[Theo Venter]

This is excellent. Thanks

[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.

[Axel Kiefer]

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

[Jiabei Yuan]

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

[Joseph nonereally]

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

[E B]

 

[c r]

Your code maved me lots of time. Thanks!.

[Ramon Planas]

Great code!! Thanks very much

[Thorbjorn Knudsen]

gr8! thx

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[Tobias C]

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

[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

[Dirk Z]

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

[Yuval Ben-Dov]

Great functionality, easy to follow, thanks for sharing!

[Karel Macek]

Very usefull.

[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.

[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...

[Santosh]

 

[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

[Todd Brintlinger]

 

[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.

[Greg Imamura]