How to use the Automation object model of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, etc.) in "plain" C

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Published on 2009-06-30T15:32:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 8:53 UTC
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I finally found the object model documentation for Microsoft Office.

However it talks about interop assemblies and stuff that sounds like .NET. I don't use .NET directly, and I don't really want to learn much about it. Is there a way to just use plain COM/ActiveX classes/interfaces to automate MS Word/Excel?

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