The problem with trying to find tags is that words are not always in the underlying XML in the format that they appear to be in Word. For example, in your sample XML the <!TAG1!> tag is split across multiple runs like this: <w:r> <w:rPr> <w:lang w:val=”en-GB”/> </w:rPr> <w:t><!TAG1</w:t> </w:r> <w:proofErr w:type=”gramEnd”/> <w:r> <w:rPr> <w:lang … Read more
Your error is caused by these: Dim oTable As Table, oRow As Row, These types, Table and Row are not variable types native to Excel. You can resolve this in one of two ways: Include a reference to the Microsoft Word object model. Do this from Tools | References, then add reference to MS Word. … Read more
The answer is going to depend slightly upon if the application is running on a server or if it is running on the client machine. If you are running on a server then you are going to want to use one of the XML based office generation formats as there are know issues when using … Read more
Here is a simple class which does the right job for .doc/.docx , PHP docx reader: Convert MS Word Docx files to text. class DocxConversion{ private $filename; public function __construct($filePath) { $this->filename = $filePath; } private function read_doc() { $fileHandle = fopen($this->filename, “r”); $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize($this->filename)); $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line); $outtext = “”; foreach($lines as … Read more
You can create an event-sink class that will contain the event-handling code for all of your controls of a particular type. For example, create the a class called TextBoxEventHandler as follows: Private WithEvents m_oTextBox as TextBox Public Property Set TextBox(ByVal oTextBox as TextBox) Set m_oTextBox = oTextBox End Property Private Sub m_oTextBox_Change() ‘ Do something … Read more
A simple example using comtypes, converting a single file, input and output filenames given as commandline arguments: import sys import os import comtypes.client wdFormatPDF = 17 in_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1]) out_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[2]) word = comtypes.client.CreateObject(‘Word.Application’) doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file) doc.SaveAs(out_file, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF) doc.Close() word.Quit() You could also use pywin32, which would be the same except for: import … Read more
In 2007 my project successfully used OpenOffice.org’s Universal Network Objects (UNO) interface to programmatically generate MS-Word compatible documents (*.doc), as well as corresponding PDF documents, from a Java Web application (a Struts/JSP framework). OpenOffice UNO also lets you build MS-Office-compatible charts, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. We were able to dynamically build sophisticated Word documents, including charts … Read more
real Word documents If you need to produce “real” Word documents you need a Windows-based web server and COM automation. I highly recommend Joel’s article on this subject. fake HTTP headers for tricking Word into opening raw HTML A rather common (but unreliable) alternative is: header(“Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word”); header(“Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=document_name.doc”); echo “<html>”; echo “<meta http-equiv=\”Content-Type\” … Read more
Reading binary Word documents would involve creating a parser according to the published file format specifications for the DOC format. I think this is no real feasible solution. You could use the Microsoft Office XML formats for reading and writing Word files – this is compatible with the 2003 and 2007 version of Word. For … Read more
Updated July 2014: Added PowerShell option and cut back the second code to list folders only The methods below that run a full recursive process in place of FileSearch which was deprecated in Office 2007. (The later two codes use Excel for output only – this output can be removed for running in Word) Shell … Read more