FN-FORUM: .NET & COM

date posted 14th January 2005 18:14

I got asked a question by a client this morning and wondered if this is
possible in .NET. I know you can use COM in .NET and I was asked if it is
possible to list the changes done to a Word document if the document has
Track Changes turned on so these changes can be listed in a web page and
viewed historically. I was thinking of using a COM reference to Microsoft
Word and opening the document using this and trying to use one of the COM
functions etc to display a list of changes listed in the Track Changes part
of the document. What I need to know is will MS Word have to be installed on
the client machine and is the Word document effectively being opened by
their machine and the information stripped out and then displayed and Word
then closed again on their machine. Is it possible to do this on the server
itself i.e. have a version of word installed on the server and use that
instance of the program with COM to strip this information out rather than
relying on the client machine version

I know you can create an instance of Excel and use Excel functions but it
relies onyou having a copy installed on your machine but I really need to
use an instance on the server rather than the client

Any help appreciated

Best Regards

John