[Gllug] Serverside Word editing

[Rev Simon Rumble]

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.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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