COM - get existing instance?

From: Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:34:43 +0000
Subject: COM - get existing instance?
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Is it possible to grab a running instance of for example Word? In VisualBasic-words: can you use 'GetObject' instead of 'CreateObject'? The latter is done by : $word = new Com("Word.Application") this creates a NEW instance, however i want to get an already running instance. Possible?

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