Hi, and thank you for your note. I can offer the file as a .pdf for
download, and I've solved that. I was just looking for a way to not have
to
directly maintain the Web pages every time some section of the .doc
do***ent
was changed. I gather that I can't simply do this..?
Thank you.
Steve E.
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>> 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
> Please respond to the group so others can share
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