find.replacement.clearformatting nightmare !

[GMG]

When issueing this command via OLE (Delphi 7) the application crashes. This
only happens with this one customer who has
Windows XP and Word 2002 SP-2.

Microsoft sent me an unofficial hot fix
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815006) which did
not fix anything, not hot at all.

I have exhausted all possibilities short of commenting out this statement.
Please help !!!

 

[GMG]

After further investigation and testing I found that the crash is due to the
machine's registry (GUID) pointing to the wrong Type Library (Usual caused
by an older version of Office such as Excel 5.0).

There are 2 solutions :



1. Use late binding.

2. Due the interface GUIDs in the registry pointing to the wrong Type
Library reregistering the word library should also enable the application to
function correctly.
"If the Word type library is properly registered, COM constructs the correct
proxy and the out-of-process calls function normally. "



see article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292744