This might be a bit off topic, but does anyone know if there’s a COM interface to WordPad? (and what is it?)
An alternate solution would be to find a way for MS Word to strip out (find and replace) certain HTML tags before converting the document.
Subject: COM/OLE Handle to WordPad?
Well, I haven’t tried it, but according to the registry You should be able to invoke Wordpad through:
Dim wp As Variant
Set wp = CreateObject(“Wordpad.Document”)
Next question is how You are going to use this since the object browser doesn’t reveal any useful methods or objects that is presented to the COM-interface (or at least as far as I can see at a first glance)…
hth
Subject: RE: COM/OLE Handle to WordPad?
Heck, I didn’t even know how to use the Object Browser to find “Wordpad.Document”, so I have no idea how to use it. I’m hoping to figure out how to do a Find-Replace on HTML code (unless you know a better way).
Subject: RE: COM/OLE Handle to WordPad?
I would use MS Word instead of wordpad to do this since Word has built in functions that can be used for just this purpose; to search and replace text. This function is available through the COM-interface and You actually don’t need the word-document to be visible to the user - it can be all done in the background.
Do You need help with that, or?
hth
p.s. I cheated a bit… I didn’t use the object browser in the Designer; I used the object browser of Visual Basic/Studio. Gives much better view of all methods and properties…
Subject: RE: COM/OLE Handle to WordPad?
The problem with using MS Word is that I want to change the HTML code (not displayed text), and I must change it before it gets into Word (the reason being that Word crashes trying to convert the text).
Subject: RE: COM/OLE Handle to WordPad?
Ah… Then, unfortunately, You are left with the only option to “manually” go through the code with LotusScript and create a new revised HTML code.
Subject: Sure, List Fields can access it and save it to file - even without OLE server available
List Fields has some powerful OLE object handling features. For example can the OLE object be saved to file - even without the OLE server (ie. the application that once made the OLE object) installed. See the following screenshot: