Hi Thomas,
MATLAB provides a powerful way to automate Microsoft Word operations through the ActiveX interface. Here's how you can programmatically manipulate Word documents and form fields:
wordApp = actxserver('Word.Application');
wordApp.Visible = 1;
doc = wordApp.Documents.Open(fullfile(pwd, 'template.dotx')); %Your word template file
controls = doc.ContentControls;
for i = 1:controls.Count
aaa = controls.Item(i).Type;
if strcmp(controls.Item(i).Type, 'wdContentControlCheckBox')
controls.Item(i).Checked = true;
end
end
doc.Save();
doc.Close();
wordApp.Quit();
The above code creates a Word application instance, opens your template file, iterates through form fields to find checkboxes, and sets their values. After modifications, it saves and closes the document before quitting Word.
For more infromation, refer to the following documentation: https://mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/actxserver.html
Hope this helps!
