"Adrienne" <arbpen2003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Serious_Practitioner"
> <Serious_PractitionerNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writing in
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> Please don't top post, and please fix your signature.
>>
>>
>> "Adrienne" <arbpen2003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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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]
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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
> Please respond to the group so others can share
Good day -
Thank you for your help. Please accept my apologies for the top posting -
I'll locate the FAQ before posting further.
Steve E.
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