navigating through docvariables from vb.net app

[mr relaxo]

hi everyone, im trying to create what seems like a pretty straightfoward little app. I basically want the user to be able to select text from listboxes etc from a form and then insert the text at the desired location in a word 2000 document. im using docvariables in the document and i have the following code

Public Class Xdocument
        Shared wordapp As Word.ApplicationClass
        Shared worddoc As Word.Document
        Shared wordrange As Word.Range
        Shared wordbk As Word.Bookmark
        Shared wordpara As Word.Paragraph
        Shared fld As Word.Field
        Shared dv As Word.Variable

        Shared Function addsometext(ByVal text As String) As Boolean

            Try
                wordapp = New Word.ApplicationClass
                wordapp.Documents.Open("e:\vb\testdoc.doc")
                wordrange = wordapp.ActiveDocument.Range
              
                For Each fld In wordapp.ActiveDocument.Fields
                    If fld.Type = Word.WdFieldType.wdFieldDocVariable Then
                        if variables name is "something" then
                        "insert some text here"

                    End If
                Next

i can find the docvariables ok, what i cant figure out is how to access the docvariables properties via the field object. is some sort of cast required or what? I may be totally headed in the wrong direction here so please feel free to point me in the right one.

Thanks,
Kris.

 

[donnacha]

You have probably solved it by now, but if not, maybe this will help as this sample updates the docuent property "Full_Name".

Dim mobjWord As Word.Application
mobjWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With mobjWord.ActiveDocument
Update the custom properties.
With .CustomDocumentProperties
Try
.Item("Full_Name").Value = "Fred Flintstone"