Posted by Serious_Practitioner on 08/05/05 15:38

"Neredbojias" <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote in message
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> With neither quill nor qualm, Serious_Practitioner quothed:
>
>> Good day, and thank you in advance for any assistance.
>>
>> I have very little experience with any sort of Web design product, HTML
>> editor...any of this. I'm more of a database person. If I'm asking for
>> something simple, please forgive me and tell me where to look. I'm using
>> MS
>> Front Page 2003. Here's what I want to accomplish -
>>
>> I've begun to design a Web page that will allow users to either download
>> one
>> of several files or look at it. The files are all Word 2000 .doc files.
>> In
>> my innocence, I figured that, with the proper code, I could make the Word
>> file come into a page when the page was loaded. So, for instance, you
>> want
>> to view the contents of file1.doc, you'd click on an image, a new page
>> would
>> open and the
>> file would be imported at that time, perhaps into a text box or table
>> cell..
>>
>> I have the download part working using .pdf files. What I am looking for
>> is
>> a way to get the contents of file1.doc to be loaded into a page, for
>> viewing, as the page is loading, like images are loaded. My thought is
>> that
>> I have a .doc, a .pdf and a page to maintain if the file contents change;
>> if
>> the .doc file can be made to load into a new page as the page loads, I
>> only
>> have to maintain the .doc file in the future, convert it to .pdf and
>> upload
>> both of them to the server to be used appropriately. Less time spent and
>> no
>> messing with the Web pages themselves. I can import the .doc files into
>> new
>> pages when I create them, but then the pages have to be edited every time
>> I
>> do an import, because there seems to be a severe loss of formatting, at
>> least with FP. I'm looking for a way around that.
>>
>> I hope this makes sense. Thank you for your assistance.
>
> Server-side scripting is made for this. Look into PHP.
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.


Thank you; I'll do that.


Steve E.

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