Upgraded to Office 2010, now Word automation not working from Matlab - The 'Color' property name is ambiguous in the 'Microsoft​_Word_14.0​_Object_Li​brary._Fon​t' class.

After performing a lot of calculations I am generating a word document via automation.

I create the document via:

MATLAB code
  wordApp = actxserver('word.Application');
  wordDoc = invoke(get(wordApp, 'Documents'), 'Add');

At one point I try and set the text color via:

MATLAB code
  selection = wordApp.Selection;
  selection.Font.Color = 255;

This worked fine (perfectly!) until I upgraded to Word 2010, now I get the error:

The 'Color' property name is ambiguous in the 'Microsoft_Word_14.0_Object_Library._Font' class.

I have tried a lot of googling and everything I can think of to fix this but no luck.

Does anyone have any ideas please?

Tom.

Answer 1

[tombola]

Typical, you spend a day googling then as soon as you post a question you find the answer. Seems it's now this:

MATLAB code
selection.Font.TextColor.RGB = textColor

[Claire]

This is so helpful - I've been struggling to get some code to work all day. I have a really stupid question that I hope you can answer. Matlab will only allow me to use a scalar in the definition of textColor. How, then, do I define any colour that is not red?

[YG]

got to wdcolor

[Igor]

Thanks! This worked perfectly for me. Replaced "actx_word_p.Selection.Font.Color ='wdColorAutomatic'" with "selection.Font.TextColor.RGB ='wdColorAutomatic'". Also replaced "SaveAs" with "SaveAs2".

[Jeevraj Hejmady]

Hi,

I'm having similar issue, I tried the above solution but i'm getting an error

a = ActXWord.Selection

I'm using matlab 2018b and MS office 365 ProPlus

Any ideas on this error ?

Jeeva

Answer 2

[tombola]

Oh and SaveAs no longer works, you need to use SaveAs2