Importing Word documents

[Mark Schonewille]

James,

If "it" is empty, in other words if the shell function doesn't return a value, it means that the textutil command didn't produce any errors. Have a look at the folder containing the original file. It should also contain the new file.

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On 9 jun 2011, at 19:29, James Hurley wrote:

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>> Message: 10
>> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200
>> From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents
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>> 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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>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Mark Schonewille
> 
> Mark,
> 
> This doesn't work for me. It appears to recognize the file name but "it" comes up empty.
> 
> Does this work on Word files or just Text files?
> 
> Jim
>