How to publish code as a Word document on a Mac?

I have Mac Office 2011 and R2012b, yet I haven't been able to publish .m code as a word document.

publish('my_fun.m','doc')

results in the following error:

"Error using mxdom2word (line 9) Publishing to Microsoft Word is only supported on the PC."

Really? This basic operation isn't supported? Is there a work-around?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Likely the communications with MS Word is handled via ActiveX, which is not present in OS-X.

[Ken Atwell]

Walter is right, publishing to Microsoft Word is performed with Active-X, a technology specific to Windows.

As an alternative, would publishing to HTML or PDF (supported on Macs) be workable for you?

Answer 2

[Matthew Simoneau]

A workaround is to publish to HTML, open the HTML up in Word, and then save as Word.

[Ward]

This does work, thanks!

I was hoping for a more direct way to get into Word, but the ActiveX issue seems to preclude that.

[Terrance Nearey]

This has other drawbacks. For example, Line breaks appear not to be preserved. Seems like a bug in Word 2011.

[John Ondov]

Great idea! May not be perfect,but better than trying to convert pdf to word - at least as far as I know!

Answer 3

[ZHONGQIAN SHANGGUAN]

When I used the code to publish my file, i just got the following error info:

Publishing to Microsoft Word is only supported on the PC.