[Gllug] Serverside Word editing

[Luke Hopkins]

It will most likely be exclusively IE, however as you point out, its
getting the file back to the server that's the issue. Of course there is
the option of: download file, edit file, upload file (using a form), but
for the target audience this is 2 stages too many :-(

Luke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Rev Simon Rumble
> Sent: 01 February 2005 13:23
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Serverside Word editing
> 
> 
> This one time, at band camp, Luke Hopkins (Broadbean) wrote:
> 
> > We have a requirement to edit Word documents through a browser.
> > One option I've considered is to convert incoming .docs to 
> HTML, use one
> > of the many WYSIWYG editors to make the change, then convert back;
> > however I'm wondering if theres anything available that will work
> > directly on the Word doc. Is it possible to interface to OO 
> through a
> > browser?
> > The editing will generally be limited to removal of a few lines.
> 
> Do you need to support non-Windows clients?  If not, why not 
> go the easy 
> option and use Word?  Not sure how you'd write the files back to the 
> server (WebDAV?) but you can definitely embed Word inside a browser.
> 
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