[Gllug] Serverside Word editing

[Richard Huxton]

Luke Hopkins (Broadbean) wrote:
> Afternoon all,
> 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.
> 
> Any thoughts would be much appreciated (avoiding Word documents is not
> an option).

Java-based VNC => Openoffice or Crossover office+Word or Windows+Word

If you could say "always be limited" rather than just "generally" you 
might be able to do something with conversions, but a generic HTML-based 
word-document editor will be a nightmare.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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