On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
--- sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I want to open MS Word files and save the text for use in a Rev app. If I open a MS Word doc I have the gibberish chars to deal with.
Is there any way to grab the text from a MS Word file without the gibberish?
Is there a way (with a PC) to have MS Word open a doc and then save it as a text file but have it all done in the background...not require the user to do this but have it done with a Rev app?
The text formatting is not crucial as these files will be used in an app for the blind and read with the speech capability.
tia
sims --
Hi Sims,
Too bad you're on a PC, or this wouldn't have been too hard to implement using AppleScript. On Windows, you may have a shot at it using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) calls. Even though DDE isn't supported directly in RunRev, there's the Externals Collection : http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/external.htm You can use Google to find a group where you can ask for more info on MS Word DDE calls.
Hope this helped,
Jan Schenkel.
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This looks pretty promising: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ Hope this helps...Cassj
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