TripScott Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Hello. I have a script that runs a MS Word macro. It has worked for over a year just fine in Word 2007 (*32) under Windows XP x32. My company is upgrading everyone to Windows 7 (x64). I cannot get AutoIt to get the Word 2007 (*32) object so the macro runs. I receive this error: "--> Word.au3 Error from function _WordMacroRun, $_WordStatus_InvalidDataType." $oWordApp = ObjGet("", "Word.Application") $oWordDoc = ObjName("", "Word.Application.Documents") WinWait("[REGEXPTITLE:^.* - Microsoft Word$]", "") If Not WinActive("[REGEXPTITLE:^.* - Microsoft Word$]", "") Then WinActivate("[REGEXPTITLE:^.* - Microsoft Word$]", "") WinWaitActive("[REGEXPTITLE:^.* - Microsoft Word$]", "") $oWordDoc = WinActivate("[REGEXPTITLE:^.* - Microsoft Word$]", "") _WordMacroRun($oWordApp, "pMassLoadFromPIM") I have recompiled the script to UseX64=y. I also tried UseX64=n, which didn't work either. What is different in Windows 7 x64 that would cause this script to not work when it works in Windows XP X32? Interestingly enough the ObjGet does work for Excel and I am able to read and write to the spreadsheet. Thanks for any help. My team is counting on me. Kristine
Moderators big_daddy Posted April 6, 2011 Moderators Posted April 6, 2011 Try running the code in SciTE with the following at the top of your script. #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64 = n It would also help if you add the following toward the top of your script before using any _Word* functions. _WordErrorHandlerRegister()
water Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I had a similar problem: OS was Windows 7 64 bit, Office 2010 was 32 bit, the AutoIt script was compiled for 64 bit. As soon as I compiled the AutoIt script for 32 bit everything was working fine again. A 32 bit COM doesn't work well with a 64 bit application. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs: Active Directory (NEW 2024-07-28 - Version 1.6.3.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki ExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts OutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki OutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - Download Outlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki PowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki Task Scheduler (2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs: Excel - Example Scripts - Wiki Word - Wiki Tutorials: ADO - Wiki WebDriver - Wiki
TripScott Posted April 7, 2011 Author Posted April 7, 2011 I had a similar problem: OS was Windows 7 64 bit, Office 2010 was 32 bit, the AutoIt script was compiled for 64 bit. As soon as I compiled the AutoIt script for 32 bit everything was working fine again.A 32 bit COM doesn't work well with a 64 bit application.That was it exactly!! Thank you very much! I was recompiling all my scripts in W7x64 because some of them would fail when I tried to run them. But those weren't the Word scripts. This leads me to a compile question. Is there a difference (for execution purposes) between compiling on an XP x32 machine in x32 mode and W7x64 in x32 mode? Kristine
water Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I moved 32 bit executables from XP to Windows 7 and they just ran fine. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs: Active Directory (NEW 2024-07-28 - Version 1.6.3.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki ExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts OutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki OutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - Download Outlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki PowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki Task Scheduler (2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs: Excel - Example Scripts - Wiki Word - Wiki Tutorials: ADO - Wiki WebDriver - Wiki
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