How to get the text from MSWord?

Hi forum members, I’m checking the events that common user creates, but I couldn't find the text when is written in Microsoft Word, the only clue is that I got a EVENT_OBJECT_LOCATIONCHANGE windows message from the caret that is in a window wich has "_WwG" class name when I type words in the document , do you know a function to get text from this window , I have already used Getwindowstext but I only got the window name and I have used the IAccessible::get_accValue function but didn't work, (I work in vc++ and I use SetWinEventHook hook and IAccessible interface)
tanks in advance

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How to get the text from MSWord?

sjr1170
I think your only chance is to get an automation interface. I never tried this before. I always used a code like GetObject in VB to retrieve the active document I needed because I knew the name of it.

You can use the "Word.Application" object and you can use the ROT (Running Object Table) to look it up. Having the Word.Application object it is easy to find the active document.
psmukilan
What do you want to do
If you are only interested in the characters that a user types. It shoud be enough to use a keyboard Hook. WH_KEYBOARD
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/hooks/hookreference/hookfunctions/setwindowshookex.asp

May be it is easier to use the automation interface for Winword.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wroriautomatingofficeapplications.asp
derohanes
because I am doing a screen reader program, and I want to read the text from the document ,the typed text and text tha has already typed before, Do yo have some advice , thanks in advance
How to get the text from MSWord?

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