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    reading a word file through VB

    hi,

    i am a newbe in vb and i want to read a word file through vb
    so i don't how to do it...
    if you can please help me...
    word application is the way but i want all the methods described in that

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    Follow links or make a search

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    read a doc file

    hi

    I want to open the word file. and I want to read text from it. How can I do it? What methods should I use?

    What I want is that I need to read all the text in a string variable without any formatting and then search some stuff in it using RegExp.

    vikas

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    Here how to open it and get text

    Here an example on how to open it and get text.
    (Warning: this example get document and make a copy
    of it as plain text in same folder, with same name plus
    a ".txt" at end of name of doc.
    Ie: if you load c:\myDoc.Doc, you get also c:\myDoc.Doc.txt)
    Plus it load the text in memory, and if TXT file is not too big,
    shows it in a richtextBox.
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    Last edited by Cimperiali; April 8th, 2004 at 07:30 AM.
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    Angry reading a doc file

    hi,
    thankyou Cimperiali...
    for helping me in reading a doc file....
    but by that way it is taking a lot of extra memory and hard disk space as i am storing the doc file in text format and then reading it...
    if there is any direct way to read a doc file then please tell me



    bye

    vikas

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    Open file for binary....

    Then you could
    1)open ythe file for binary,
    2)read all file in a variable (see cakkie sticky post)
    3)strip all chars that are not valid (use replace. you will have to
    match all non A-Zz-a0-9 plus spaces and chr 13 and chr10. There
    could be some else you may want to save....)
    4)open a file for output and print the resulting variable
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