Hi

My VB.net app needs to cater for some of my clients who are still using
Office 2000 (some are using Office 2007 though)

We do some basic mail-merge stuff. Open a document, set a few bookmarks,
print it and then move onto the next client.

In VB6, I used to add a reference to msword.olb.

What do I need to do to get it to work - I've tried to add that as a
reference, and then Visual Studio does something magic with the 'interop'
stuff - and more importantly I get an exception when trying to load my
document

oApp.Documents.Open("c:\myDoc.doc", , True)

gives me an exception of

System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected
memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
  at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Documents.Open(Object& FileName, Object&
ConfirmConversions, Object& ReadOnly, Object& AddToRecentFiles, Object&
PasswordDocument, Object& PasswordTemplate, Object& Revert, Object&
WritePasswordDocument, Object& WritePasswordTemplate, Object& Format, Object&
Encoding, Object& Visible, Object& OpenAndRepair, Object& DocumentDirection,
Object& NoEncodingDialog, Object& XMLTransform)

Please help !

thanks
Bruce