There was somewhere a demo on how to use a TDBOleContainer class
control, that does what you need...
I will grab into my archives to find it for you...

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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Christian Gutter [mailto:cguetter@...]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Mai 2001 18:52
> An: 'ibobjects@yahoogroups.com'
> Betreff: [IBO] Storing Office Documents in IB DBs; OT: Office
> Automation
>
>
> Hi,
>
> since December 2000, my company uses an application based
> on IB/IBO which the users (and me, too) are very satisfied
> with.
>
> For the next major version, I plan to implement a feature
> that enables the users to store word/excel docs in the
> DB.
> It should not just be
> - save to disk
> - store as blob in DB.
>
> It should be somehow like this:
> - user opens my app
> - clicks "create invoice" in my app
> - my app opens a new window with Microsoft Word in it
> - my app does some automation like inserting articles,
> prices, adress, etc.
> - when the user has finished, the doc is saved to the DB.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this.
> I have look around in the internet for a while and found
> some pointers, but I think there are some people here who
> have already done this and perhaps some of them could give
> some more valuable information :-)
>
> Generally, I would like to know:
> - how to call word etc. as a "child" of my application - some
> pointers to OLE or whatever
> - how to use IBO to save the results of the word session (= a
> document)
> in the database
> - some pointers to good howtos about office automation, hints, etc.
>
> I know that some of the above points do not really refer to IBO -
> so if some of your answers get too much OT feel free to e-mail me
> privately.
>
> One more information: I use Delphi4 C/S , IBO 3.6 and Office 2000.
>
>
> TIA for your answers.
>
>
> Christian
>
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