> I am not a programmer, but this past week I have had a crash course in
> python scripting am have been rather impressed with myself for having
> written a fairly complicated script that among many other processes
> reads a database table via SearchCursor, populates a word template via
> Bookmarks, then saves the document out as a PDF.

> The only problem is that it only works on my computer. When I move the
> script to another computer with the same setup, I continue to receive
> a Com_error.

> The script fails at my SaveAs(out_TOC, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF)
> statement. I have tried both win32com.client and comtypes.client and
> receive a similar error for both.

> win32.client:
> com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, u'Microsoft Word',
> u'Command failed', u'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\
> \1033\\WDMAIN11.CHM', 36966, ), None)

> comtypes.client:
> COMError: (-2146824090, None, (u'Command failed', u'Microsoft Word',
> u'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\1033\\WDMAIN11.CHM',
> 36966, None))

> It has been suggested that I try python-docx, but I have not been able
> to get the module to work for me and I have been unable to find any
> documentation on it.

> Can anyone help with the com errors? What do they mean? How do I
> resolve them?

> Any help would be appreciated.

> John