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[Michael Southwell]

At 03:25 PM 5/7/2005, you wrote:
>Hey everyone,
>
>has anyone here ever needed the ability to parse a word document?  I have 
>a client that creates his newsletters in MS Word and wants to upload them 
>and send them to his users in an HTML or text based newsletter.  This 
>wouldnt be a proablem if i have ever heard of an MS Word Parser, i know 
>there is an Excel parser class.. Is there a way to parse a word document?
>
>What i would need to do is take the contents of the word document and 
>convert it to html, saving the images from the word doc to a directory so 
>that the HTML links could show them.

As David Mintz already suggested, Word has the capability of doing all of 
this itself.  If he can't/won't save it as HTML (NB:  it should be 
*filtered* HTML, which will strip out at least some of the garbage), you 
can do it yourself.  I then use some macros to strip it further, at which 
point it is easily displayed.


>Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
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