hoffmandirt

I am attempting to parse a Microsoft Word document that has form fields in it. My normal method of parsing word documents isn't going to work here. Generally I use some API to open the document, save it as html, and then parse the html. However, when I try that here, I can't tell whether or not the check boxes have a check or not because the check state is not saved to the html. Has anyone tried this before? My next option here is to look into c# and the word api to see if I can do that.

DaWei

You might look into VBA/VB. It's ugly, I know, but it deals with the underlying objects, even if it looks like Quasimodo.

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hoffmandirt

Thanks DaWei, I am looking into that now and you are correct. It's very ugly, but it seems that VBA is what I need to get the job done.

Arla

What version of Word? I thought the latest version saved things as XML?

hoffmandirt

I haven't seen an example of 2007's XML support, but if you have ever seen a sample from 2003, you would throw up.