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Hello, word!

For example, let's take Microsoft Word 95. As you can see, it'll only take a few lines of code to make it possible to insert text to Word documents from your application (don't forget to add "OLEAuto" unit to your "uses" statement):

procedure InsertTextToWord(
  sText : string );
var  W : Variant;
begin
  { create an OLE object of           }
  { type Word.Basic                   }
  W := CreateOleObject( 'word.basic' );
  { call Word.Basic's Insert function }
  W.Insert( sText );
end;

Using the above function, all you have to do is call it with the text you want to insert:

InsertTextToWord( 'hello, word!' );

To find out what other commands you can use to control Microsoft Word (for example) lookup its help for "WordBasic" -- the name of the macro language used to write custom applications for Word. To find out if your favorite application supports OLE automation, lookup its help for "OLE Automation."