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Hello Everyone,

Yes, I know this has to be quite a basic question, but it's one that I have somehow missed finding an answer for, so I humbly ask:

How does one import a MS Word document without also getting all the strange computer symbols into the field into which it is imported? I know how to import and export documents from inside Revolution, but basically, what I'm trying to do is import a formatted document, whether it is a MS Word .doc or .rtf document etc., and then convert it to a plain old text file ".txt" without any formatting.

I've been trying script related to htmlText and setting the text to "Courier," and many other things, but the process still eludes me.

Once again, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks, deeverd

I think your best bet here is to use 'rtf' documents.
Though I don't think Rev's rtf implementation is perfect, fields can have a 'rtfText' property, so you can
I don't think there's any easy way to directly import '.doc' documents.

Best,

Mark

Deeverd, this might help:

http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... =word+text

Thanks,

This weekend, I will definitely be testing out this script and digesting the link information that was also sent. Actually, I had seen that link and forum information prior to posting, but have only very limited experience with VB (I played with it a couple months ago to add some extra functionality to PowerPoint), so I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. VB definitely impressed on me how much more user-friendly Revolution scripting is to use. I had even followed the link from Richard Gaskin to check out the software for importing Word 2007, but I am much more inclined to make, rather than buy such software, because I need it to implement it into my own programs.

For instance, my purpose for being able to import Word docs more cleanly is for a little program I am building for the teachers at the high school where I work. Its purpose is to allow them to import a document and run it through the program, so that all the common "general service language" words of that text will be taken out, leaving behind a list of those words which should mostly likely be included in the student's vocabulary list for that week. In other words, it will filter out all the words they should already know, and narrow their text down to just those handful of words that the teachers most likely will need to explain their meaning to them.

Right now, making the software to do that is no problem, it's just getting a clean copy of the document. But, I will try these suggestions and report back. I also just remembered another resource that I nearly forgot along these lines. I seem to recall there's a sample project called "Open Anything" which might also be a great source of info.

Thanks again, and have a great weekend. Cheers, deeverd