Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM

date posted 14th January 2005 18:45

You'd need Word installed on the server.

You upload the word doc to the server, have COM do its thing and then
push the results back to the client as a webpage.

*shudder*


On 14 Jan 2005 19:28:39 -0000, John Kyle [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> 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
>
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