COM help please $Word->Selection->Font.Size

[firepages]

OK OOP help?
not sure, I am having some fun with COM at the moment, and have achieved my original objective of creating word documents from existing textfiles.

But playing more, I find I want to access and set the font Size of a document, now groping through VB documentation I see that I should be able to do this using
Document->Font.Size = 14
or
Selection->Font.Size = 14

the problem I assume is that the illegal '.' is causing the problem, and I have read that I can use com_set() & com_get() to properly access this property but all I do is frustrate myself and crash apache a lot


basically in the following I want to set the $str variable to a set font size..

$str .="$row[0]\n\n\n";
$word = new COM("word.application") ;
   $word->Visible = 1;
    $word->Documents->Add();
    $word->Documents[1]->ApplyTheme("Bars");
    $word->Selection->TypeText($str);
    $word->Selection->InsertFile("$path/$row[3].rtf"); 
    $word->Documents[1]->CheckSpelling();
//$word->Quit(); 

$word = null; 

I can get it bold (which would do) but that also bolds the included textfile as well.

does anyone have any ideas ???

[Ace Nova]

try replacing the "." with a -> but honestly i have no freaking clue

[firepages]

Cheers Ace - I tried that & all sorts of other combinations - no go
sometimes I get no errors reported but still no difference in the output, this is really annoying me now - I can do almost everything I am wanting to do except this formatting stuff.

anyone , even links to hopeful possibles would be cool - I checked out the phpbuilder column but to na avail, I emailed the author as well as he really seems to know his stuff, no joy yet though.

Come on people FULL office integration is the last step in ASP assimilation, help ..... please