Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Serious_Practitioner"
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Please don't top post, and please fix your signature.
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> "Adrienne" <arbpen2003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Serious_Practitioner"
>> <Serious_PractitionerNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writing in
>> news:5D3Ie.538238$cg1.26770@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
> 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.
>
>
Actually, if you're doing it server side, you can do what you want, and
have the server create the word do***ent, serving it as application/word.
You will probably want to post in a server side group, maybe start with
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general .
But if you don't have access to server side, then you're out of luck.
--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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