Word document "Saveas2()" method no longer working

As of the past few days, I seem to be no longer able to save word documents created through matlab. Several months ago I ran the following script which opens an existing word document and saves it as another document.

reportPath = 'Table_out.docx';
templateName = append(pwd, '\Table_Inject_Test.docx'); 
actx_word = actxserver('Word.Application');

Execution of script actxserver as a function is not supported:
/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/winfun/actxserver.m

actx_word.Visible = true;
trace(actx_word.Visible);  
wordTemplate = actx_word.Documents.Open(templateName); % Open template
wordTemplate.SaveAs2(reportPath); % Save copy as report

Once I started getting this error in another project, I reverted back to this script to check it wasn't something I had done within the word template to cause the error.

However when I try to run the same script now, I get the following error:

% Unrecognized method, property, or field 'SaveAs2' for class
% 'Interface.0002096B_0000_0000_C000_000000000046'.

% Error in tableinjecttest2 (line 7)
% wordTemplate.SaveAs2(reportPath); % Save copy as report

Has something changed within the WordInterface object? I see there is a 'saveobj' method but that doesn't seem to save the document either. That just gives me a different error:

% Unable to resolve the name 'wordParent.saveobj'.
% 
% Error in tableInjectTest (line 22)
% wordTemplate.saveobj(reportPath)

[dpb]

That the error seems to think the function is a script implies there must be an alias or the builtin function has been inadvertently overwritten.

See what

which -all actxserver

returns; if there is more than the one in the winfun toolbox folder, then that will be the problem...remove/rename it to not clash.

If there isn't the alias, see what

type actxserver

shows...it should show that the builtin is indeed, a function starting off something like

>> type actxserver.m

function h = actxserver(progID, varargin)
%ACTXSERVER Creates a COM Automation server.
%  H = ACTXSERVER('PROGID') Creates a local or remote COM Automation server
%  where PROGID is the programmatic identifier of the COM server and H is
%  the handle of the server's default interface. 

that it is, indeed, a function, not a script. It not, something is munged...

[Alex]

Everything seems above board within my matlab itself. Entering:

which -all actxserver

gives me:

built-in (C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2024a\toolbox\matlab\winfun\actxserver)

and running:

type actxserver.m

gives out:

%ACTXSERVER Creates a COM Automation server.
%  H = ACTXSERVER('PROGID') Creates a local or remote COM Automation server
%  where PROGID is the programmatic identifier of the COM server and H is
%  the handle of the server's default interface. 
%
%  H = ACTXSERVER('PROGID', 'param1', value1,...) creates an ActiveX
%  server with optional parameter name/value pairs. Parameter names are:
%   machine:    specifies the name of a remote machine on which to launch 
%               the server.

the only difference I'm seeing between your output and mine is that the function h = actxserver(progID, varargin) text doesn't appear at the top of the output. My colleague is also experiencing the exact same issue which leaves to me believe its something to do with actxserver itself.

[dpb]

"... function h = actxserver(progID, varargin) text doesn't appear at the top of the output."

That's because built-in functions don't have the source code available as with the m-file.

This then is a bug when Mathworks built/shipped the builtin version. Submit an official bug report..

If you have an earlier release, a temporary workaround could be to copy the m-file into a location on your working path above the toolboxes to use the prior version instead.

[Alex]

Looks like it was fixed this morning, good to know for the future. Thanks.