Trouble publishing to a Word Doc

When I try to publish as a Word Doc, I recieve the following error

??? Error using ==> mxdom2word at 15
Microsoft Word must be installed to publish to this format.

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

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

??? Error using ==> open at 68
NAME must contain a single string.

I DO have Microsoft Office (Word) installed, so I don't understand where the problem lies. Ideas?

Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

The PUBLISH command attempts to start up Word as a COM server to perform the operation, so I think the real problem here is that MATLAB is unable to do that. You could verify this by running this command at the MATLAB prompt:

    h = actxserver('Word.Application')

What error do you see?

Also, do you run MATLAB as administrator? Another option is to try starting Word as a COM server outside of MATLAB (potentially using a VBA script) to see if that works.

[Gregory Vernon]

>> h = actxserver('Word.Application')

??? Error using ==> actxserver at 91

Server creation failed. Invalid ProgID 'Word.Application'

It makes no difference whether I run as administrator or not.

[Kaustubha Govind]

It looks like MS Word is not registered as a COM Server in the Windows Registry for some reason. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with debugging this. Maybe you could try re-installing Word, or check with your system admin to see if starting Word as a COM Server is blocked?