Re: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents
- Posted by "Michelle Rogers" <michellerogers at bellsouth.net> Jul 18, 2004
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I intend to use euphoria to code on the pc, and simply read the data that was "hot-synced". Michelle Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Rogers" <michellerogers at bellsouth.net> To: <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 6:13 PM Subject: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents > > > Can anyone tell me how to have euphoria > 1. write files in Microsoft word format? (or is this impossible) > and the reverse of that.. > 2. Read in data from a Microsoft word document, instead of plain text. > > One reason I'm asking is because i've found a small basic-derivitive > language to code on Palm OS. I want to be able to interact between the palm > (i have a class set of 25) and the main computer. Basically, the students > would all use Palms..and they would hot sync to the main (teacher) > computer..which would automatically grade/correct their work and also enter > it into my grading program. > > Here's my problem... > just plain text files won't "hot sync"....i can "hot sync" Word To Go > documents from the palm to the pc. The pc reads them in as a word document. > On the other hand, I can send a word document from the pc to the palm, and > the palm reads it in as a "word to go" document. > > Wait...I may have just solved my own problem. Would it work to simply name > the files with a ".doc" extension...but still treat them as a plain file? > > > >