Extracing data from word document to notepad or edit box

[Ankush Mehta]

Hi, I am trying to extract data from word document to an edit box or notepad. I tried doing it usingIDispatch interfaces. i used other methods also. But the main problem is that i get certain meaningless characters in edit box after extraction.Perhaps this is due to the formatting characters in doc format. How can i get data from doc to notepad? I am using VC++ 6.0. Thanks in anticipation, Ankush Mehta Ankush Mehta

[Rage]

Ankush Mehta wrote:

certain meaningless characters in edit box after extraction

If you are talking about small squares, maybe you should replace all "\n\r" by "\r\n" in the strings you are exporting. ~RaGE();

[Barm]

I suggest you use MS Word automation to extract the content of the doc file before writing the information to an edit box or notepad. http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/word/default.aspx[^] Thomas

[grigsoft]

Please note that using any automation method will require Word installed on end-user PC. If this is not acceptable, I could suggest using some third party text extraction tools, such as wordcnv.com Igor Green http://www.grigsoft.com/ - files and folders comparison tools