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Reading a .doc (MSWord) file in ObjectiveC ?

Hi All, Is it possible to read a .doc (MSWord) file in ObjC ? Or Is there any other way to read the word file ? Thanks ...

Replace image in word doc using OpenXML

Following on from my last question here OpenXML looks like it probably does exactly what I want, but the documentation is terrible. An hour of googling hasn't got me any closer to figuring out what I need to do. I have a word document. I want to add an image to that word document (using word) in such a way that I can then open the docu...

How to pass a word macro a String parameter

I would like to call a word macro from a java program and pass the macro a search string. Is there anyway to do this? ...

Helpful advice on developing a professional MS Word add-on

A few months back I put together a simple proof-of-concept piece of software for a small firm with an idea for a document editing tool. The company wanted this tool to be integrated into Microsoft Word, understandably, to maximize its accessibility to the average user. I essentially wrote the underlying library with all of the core func...

VSTO addin (2003-2007) Ms Word & Webservices

Hi, I am planning on starting my 1st VSTO project. What I want to be able to do is: Download and Upload versions of a MS Word document to a web service. With authentication by overriding the save button Call a web service to list a bunch of tag that can be inserted into a document. When a user double clicks a tag the selected tag is ...

Converting MS word quotes and apostrophes

Hi, How do I convert the MS Word quotes and apostrophes to regular quotes and apostrophes characters in Java? What's the unicode number for these characters? i.e., “how are you doing?” ‘howdy’ to "how are you doing?" 'howdy' Thanks Edit: It appears that stackoverflow is already converting it to regular quotes and apostrophes...ho...

Commercial Java LIB / API to read and write Word 2007 docs

I need a simple to use / good docs / good support java lib to read and write word documents, namely word 2007 support (and word 2010 support planned). As the project I'm in has budget and time-constraints I don't mind buying a commercial lib :) I know they are XML files in a somewhat open format but I really don't want to waste time und...

Word forms with too many ActiveX checkboxes load slowly.

Hi there, my company's software product has a feature that allows users to generate forms from Word templates. The program auto fills some fields from the SQL database and the user can fill in other data that they desire. So we have a .dotx template that holds the design of the form, and then the user gets the .docx file to fill out whe...

Convert from Microsoft Word to Media Wiki Markup Style

How do I export a word document to media wiki markup style I have been trying to do it by following the steps given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki but all in vain, not getting it. Any help please. ...

MS Word 03 - Terribly simple question about turning off the squiggly lines for code

So I am making documents with code examples in word. The squiggly lines....how do I turn off the red and green lines that appear under the grammer and spelling errors?? Sorry I know its simple for this forum, but I don't know how to do it! Thanks Justin ...

How to open document that contains AutoOpen macro with PowerShell?

My current PowerShell script: $document = "C:\\test.doc" $word = new-object -comobject word.application $word.Visible = $false $word.DisplayAlerts = "wdAlertsNone" $word.AutomationSecurity = "msoAutomationSecurityForceDisable" $doc = $word.Documents.Open($document) $word.ActivePrinter = "\\http://ptr-server:631\pdf-printer" $background ...

Number of pages in a word doc in java

Is there an easy way to count the number of pages is a Word document either .doc or .docx? Thanks ...

maintaining the state of powerpoint presentation embedded inside a word doc.

I have a 200 slide powerpoint presentation. I have a word document where I am writing some stuff. Now I have to embed the presentation in the word doc. I can use the "add object" feature to embed the presentation. But the concern is, I want to show different slides on different word doc pages. I can split the ppt into many little ppts a...

Binding Data to Word 2007 Content Controls Using Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0)

I found this article - Binding Data to Word 2007 Content Controls Using Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (3.0) - and thought that that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I want to programatically build a product brochure using Content Controls and Open XML. The article in question refers to an accompanying video which unfortunat...

How do I search & replace all occurrences of a string in a ms word doc with python?

Hello there, I am pretty stumped at the moment. Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1045628/can-i-use-win32-com-to-replace-text-inside-a-word-document I was able to code a simple template system that generates word docs out of a template word doc (in Python). My problem is that text in "Text Fields" is not find that way. Even i...

Using Interop.Word, is there a way to do a replace (using Find.Execute) and keep the original text's justification?

I'm attempting to write find/replace code for Word documents using Word Automation through Interop.Word (11.0). My documents all have various fields (that don't show up in Document.Fields) that are surrounded with brackets, eg., <DATE> needs to be replaced with DateTime.Now.Format("MM/dd/yyyy"). The find/replace works fine. However, s...

Testing VSTO Applications?

I'm developing a Word 2007 VSTO application in VS2008. The part of the application that interacts with VSTO is difficult to test. VSTO objects behave differently than most class libraries. Their state and behaviors depend on how the user is interacting with Word, where they clicked, what's around the insertion point, etc. Mock objects co...

What is the best way to call MSWord from C++

Hi, my question is: What is the best way to call MSWord from C++ I never did this before. I always used VB6 and the Word-COM-Library: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OfficeXX\MSWORD.olb resp: "Microsoft Word XX.0 Object Library" how should I use/call Word from C++ (VS2010) ? should I use .NET ? (C++CLI) do you have a good step by ...

Ruby libraries for parsing .doc files?

Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any good libraries for parsing .doc files (and similar formats, like .odt) to extract text, yet also keep formatting information where possible for display on a website. Capability of doing similarly for PDFs would be a bonus, but I'm not looking as much for that. This is for a Rails proj...

Clean Microsoft Word Pasted Text using JavaScript

I am using a 'contenteditable' <div/> and enabling PASTE. It is amazing the amount of markup code that gets pasted in from a clipboard copy from Microsoft Word. I am battling this, and have gotten about 1/2 way there using Prototypes' stripTags() function (which unfortunately does not seem to enable me to keep some tags). However, even...