Hi Johnathan,
'actxserver(progid)' MATLAB command creates a local OLE Automation server, where progid is the programmatic identifier (ProgID) of an OLE-compliant COM server. The function returns a handle to the default interface of the server.
As an info, the Microsoft® Component Object Model (COM) provides a framework for integrating reusable, binary software components into an application. A COM object has properties, methods, events, and interfaces. Vendor documentation (in your case Microsoft word) describes these features.
The following link provides the different references of the MS word object model. You can use the methods that are exposed on the object to achieve the desired workflow:
You can also learn about your object using MATLAB® commands.
Example of writing to word from MATLAB:
There is an example that is a MATLAB Central Submission. The submission can be found at the link below.
The submission also shows how to insert figures, tables, headers and footers, etc.
