Importing Word documents

[Mark Schonewille]

Jim,

get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote)

This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode.

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On 9 jun 2011, at 16:03, James Hurley wrote:

> If one copies a Word document from within Word and pastes that copy into a LC field, much of the formatting is retained.
> 
> Not so if one just uses:  get url "file:" &  tFileName
> 
> Is there a way, within LC, to obtain the copy and paste formatting, perhaps with an imbedded AppleScript?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim