Hi Kathryn:
It depends on the documents themselves how they look when they turn out.
Basically, the converted pages tend to look ugly. And as Mark Smyth said,
Dreamweaver can clean up the wonky HTML. Yes it is doable with Excel too, in
fact I have found that Excel documents tend to turn out better.
You might want to consider getting Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the
Reader) and using it to convert the docs to pdfs. Here is a link that
explains the process and talks about some of the issues:
http://users.belgacom.net/prepresspanic/pdf/apps/word.htm . Or you could go
with activePDF: www.activepdf.com.
Acrobat Reader is a free and quick install for those who do not already have
it.
my two cents... :)
Patrick Harkins
Good morning, all
Here is my problem. We have a number of Word and Excel documents that are
currently available on our company Intranet. We have just rolled out the
Intranet, so it is only available at HQ. We are slowly beginning to give
our branches access, but our branch employees generally have thin clients
with IE installed, but no Word or Excel. Therefore, we need to create a
custom tag that takes Word/Excel files and coverts them to HTML.
My first thought is to use the Object models in Word and Excel to do a
simple Save As HTML.
Has anyone done anything like this? Is this a practical solution? I would
think that I would use VBScript to do this. Does anyone have any comments,
war stories, references or resources on this?
I am posting this through email, since our Internet access has been shut
down due to the virus, so if this has been covered ad nauseum, I apologize.
Thanks!
Kathryn Butterly
Web Developer
Washington Mutual Finance
813 632-4490
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