Reading word file in vc

Hi all,

In my vc program i need to read word files. In codeguru database section i found a no of article on how to read data from excel file. But there is nothing relateted to word file. can anybody help me out.

Note:

The word file names are not fixed, it will be provided during runtime.
Files can be of any size.
The program must not do any truncation on data.

Thanks,
rdonline1

Hi Rdonline

You can manipulate Word docs using COM. Yoou will need to import the appropriate type lib.

Have a look at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

like doesn't help much. i need some short of code snippet which wull guid me. there is nothing that short. somebody pl help

There are tutorial examples on how to automate word if you click on the links in the article above or this link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sofficedev.asp

for a short example see this thread

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...+or+automation

a small example project is attached to the thread.

thanks tom,

i find the articles are interesting, But they all are related to office automation. How to create and write in word and other files. The process is also too big.

I just want some simple process to read data. In the examples it takes to much time to instanciate the word and excel applicaton. Is there is no other way just to read from word. For excel i found one very good example but not for word. Can anybody help?

Thanks

If you really want to decode a Word file by hand, http://www.wotsit.org/ has all the information on how to do it. But it is not for the faint-hearted - it is a hugely complex format.