I want to use the Microsoft Office COM server components under the servers
page of the component palette.  Other than a help entry called "servers page
components" which doesn't say much, there is no help at all on how to use
these things.  I have looked in the program files/Borland/Delphi 7/bin for
any unregistered help files.  Nothing there.  Can't find anything in the D7
developer's guide either.  Where can I go to find documentation on
properties, methods, events and use of these components?  Does the Borland
web site have this somewhere?  Thanks.

The documentation you are looking for is *Microsofts* documentation for the
Office object models. The VBA help files for the Office products are a good
source for this information, as is the MSDN library (also online on
msdn.microsoft.com). For Delphi-specific questions check the
b.p.delphi.oleautomation group and Deborah Pates website,
http://www.djpate.freeserve.co.uk

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Thanks for your comeback on this.  However, I have a problem with Borland on
their support on this.  These components are VCL wrappers for Microsoft COM
servers.  Why would Borland go to all the trouble to make these COM
wrappers?  To make using them much easier to use, of course!  But ease of
use is defeated if there is no documentation on methods, properties and
events.  Having to hunt through Microsoft's resources to find a MS Office
automation server reference then have to decipher the convoluted
documentation does not make Delphi programming easy ( I still haven't found
what I'm looking for on their site).  Maybe there are some help files on the
CDs or Zipped somewhere where I haven't found them yet.  There have been
plenty of times what I was looking for is right in front of me.

 Picture how *easy* Delphi programming would be if there were no help files
or documentation on the standard controls and you never used any of them
before.  The reason they are easy to use is because of the references.  All
I'm asking is if VCL components are provided with the system, some sort of
authoritative help with methods, procedures and events be supplied too.  I
how you would agree.  Perhaps you can pass this on to the powers that be.
Again thanks for your help.
"Peter Below (TeamB)" <100113.1...@compuXXserve.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:27:34 -0600, "Patrick Ryan" <pr...@parking.com>
wrote:

MS will not allow Borland to provide such documentation.

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