Error in publishing

I use Matlab 7.12.0 R2011a, on a Windows XP SP3 box. I am trying to use the publish feature of Matlab to automatically create a Microsoft Office Word file with the results that I am dumping on the Matlab Command Window and other figures. I get the following error message.

??? Error using ==> saveas at 72
Invalid Simulink object specifier

Error in ==> mxdom2word at 149 doc.SaveAs(outputPath,wdFormatDocument);

Error in ==> publish at 183 mxdom2word(dom,outputAbsoluteFilename);

Error in ==> mdbpublish at 55 outputPath = publish(file, options);

??? Error using ==> open at 69 NAME must contain a single string.

The #69 of

open()

gets a empty string and hence the error. But when I looked closer into the code for

publish.m

and then into

mxdom2word.m

It seems to me that the culprit is the line #149 (in my file, I presume it will be same on yours too), specifically the line below

    doc.SaveAs(outputPath,wdFormatDocument);

If I set a debug point at this line and look into the

doc

object (of type Interface.Microsoft_Word_14.0_Object_Library._Document), it does not have a

doc.SaveAs()

method. Seems to me like the run-time is somehow calling the default

SaveAs()

subroutine. I changed the code to

doc.SaveAs2()

and the whole thing runs fine.

Your comments, suggestions? Could you please tell me if my diagnosis is right? Is this behavior to be thought as a bug? or a programmer's mistake!

P.S: I use MS Office 2010

[Christie Dennis]

I get the same error when I try to publish to Word. Did you ever get a response to this bug?

Answer 1

[Ken Atwell]

Gurudatha, SaveAs works with earlier versions of Office, but Office 2010 needs "SaveAs2", as you have discovered. :) R2011b addresses this.

See also http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/659693

[Gurudatha Pai]

Thanks, that was good know.