Ms Word driver

Hello all,

I want to design a report with multiple datasources, and one of them is a word document...

In fact, what I want, is to take a complete word document and inserting it into the report. But I don't know how to do this or if it's even possible.

Does a Microsoft Word driver exists, or is there any workaround to do this ?

Regards,

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mwilliams

Hi RegisR,

If you can read the file using java/javascript, you could use a scripted dataSource to pull the text in.

RegisR

Hi mwilliams,

Thank you for the response.
But if I have understood what you say, it will not work in my case.
Word is a binary format, so it will be very difficult (for me) to read it in javascript.
I tried to save to .txt but it (of course) loose information.
.docx format is to complicated to easily parse it. (And I have no time planned on this subject).
So, thank again for this reply and if (but it will probably not be the case) I have some days planned on this, I'll create a word 2003 driver.

And if you have other ideas, you're welcome !

mwilliams

RegisR,

You're right. I wasn't thinking about the .doc format. Writing a custom driver will probably be the way to go.