Reading a Word File

[Gregory Lypny]

Thanks Stephen,

Exactly the info I needed.

	Regards,

		Gregory


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
  wrote:

> Yes, it's possible, as Google has shown, that it's possible to  
> 'crack' the
> MS formats, but it is not trivial, and not published.
> What is usually suggested is to tell whoever is supplying the  
> documents you
> need to process in RTF format, which any copy of Word can do, and  
> you can
> preserve most of the formatting.
>
> Parsing such a
> document must still be done carefully, but the RTF specs are  
> published online.
>
> -------------------------
> Stephen Barncard