Organizations often create applications that serve both internal and external customers. For example, an organization might need to regularly generate customized Word documents for both users and customers. Fortunately, you can use COM objects with Microsoft Office applications. Office lets you drive most of its features from a programming language such as Visual Basic (VB). This compatibility lets you automate almost any task. In this article, I show you how to use VB and Word to create custom reports from a SQL Server database.