Merge or insert different Word files into a final Word file using Actxserver

Hello,

I would like to know it somebody can help with this. I´m not sure if it is possible to do it. Lets say that I have several Word files with different information in them (documents A, B and C). The objective is to use Matlab, to create a unique and final Word document whose different sections are the whole content of the documents A, B and C. Is there any way that using Matlab with actxserver to create the final document, by copying and pasting information read from documents A, B and C in a easy way?

wordaplication = actxserver('Word.Application');

final_doc=invoke(wordaplication.Documents,'Add','D:\Test_Report.docx');

docA=invoke(wordaplication.Documents,'Add','D:\Test_ReportA.docx');

docB=invoke(wordaplication.Documents,'Add','D:\Test_ReportB.docx');

docC=invoke(wordaplication.Documents,'Add','D:\Test_ReportC.docx');

then.something like this

for each Doc

content_doc=read (Doc)

paste content_doc in final_doc

end

Thanks in advance!

[M Angeles de la Cruz]

I have been investigating and I would like to use the option from MS Word of inserting a Word file in order to perform the merge. To learn how to use it, I have recorded a macro performing this activity on Word, and the resulting code is the following:

Selection.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject( ClassType:="Word.Document.12", FileName:="C:\Users\mangeles.delacruz\Desktop\Test\Doc1.docx", LinkToFile :=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False)

I´m trying to call this function from matlab but I get errors all the time... I´m not very familiar with actxserver with Word... This is the code I´m writing:

wordaplication = actxserver('Word.Application');

wordaplication.Visible = 1; %Word visible or not, put 0 if it is not desired to see the docx editing

doc=invoke(wordaplication.Documents,'Add','D:\Test_Report.docx');

selection = wordaplication.Selection;

selection.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject('C:\Users\mangeles.delacruz\Desktop\SW RFSCOE\hola.docx',0,0);

Then I get a message on the word document saying "word cannot obtain data from link 0". I clic on accept and then I also get the following error on Matlab console:

Error using Interface.Microsoft_Word_14.0_Object_Library.InlineShapes/AddOLEObject

Error in pruebasWords (line 15)

selection.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject('C:\Users\mangeles.delacruz\Desktop\SW RFSCOE\hola.docx',0,0);

I think this function is the key to solve my need... but I´m not using it right.

Anybody with more experience can help?

Thank you!!