Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Serious_Practitioner"
<Serious_PractitionerNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writing in
news:5D3Ie.538238$cg1.26770@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Good day, and thank you in advance for any assistance.
>
> I have some experience, not a lot, with MS Front Page and HTML, but I'm
> more of a database person. If I'm asking for something simple, please
> forgive me and tell me where to look. I'm using MS Front Page 2003.
> Here's what I want to accomplish -
>
> I've begun to design a Web page that will allow users to either
> download one of several files or look at it. The files are all Word
> 2000 .doc files. In my innocence, I figured that, with the proper code,
> I could make the Word file come into a page when the page was loaded.
> So, for instance, if you want to view the contents of file1.doc, you
> click on an image, a new page would open and the file would be im****ted
> at that time, perhaps into a text box or table cell.
>
> I have the download part working using .pdf files. What I am looking
> for is a way to get the contents of file1.doc to be loaded into a page,
> for viewing, as the page is loading, like images are loaded. My thought
> is that I have a .doc, a .pdf and a page to maintain if the file
> contents change; if the .doc file can be made to load into a new page
> as the page loads, I only have to maintain the .doc file in the future,
> convert it to .pdf and upload both of them to the server to be used
> appropriately. Less time spent and no messing with the Web pages
> themselves. I can im****t the .doc files into new pages when I create
> them, but then the pages have to be edited every time I do an im****t,
> because there seems to be a severe loss of formatting, at least with
> FP. I'm looking for a way around that.
>
> I hope this makes sense. Thank you for your assistance.
>
>
> Steve E.
>
>
>
There are people who do not have Word, and people who would not want a
Word
do***ent opening in their browser, especially since Word do***ents are so
prone to viruses.
Your best bet is to offer the file for download. You can show the
contents
in HTML, even use Word to make the HTML file, just be sure to use
something
like HTML-Tidy to clean it up.
--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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