Re: FN-FORUM: Re: Editing Word and excel docs on a hosted ISP server

date posted 25th July 2005 21:03

Hi,

For Excel, try either:
OpenOffice sdk: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/index.html
Formula one: http://www.reportingengines.com/index.jsp
POI: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

POI and Openoffice are good for word documents, too. You'll need a
little Java.

Graham


> Server: Linux
> Client: windows
> Windows Office 2003
> Through a web browser
> RTF for word docs, any option for excel
>
> Does this help?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mamading Ceesay" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Re: Editing Word and excel docs on a hosted ISP
> server
>
>
>
> On 25 Jul 2005 18:03:05 -0000, TH Hotmail Account [EMAIL REMOVED]
> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone help? I need to be able to edit and save changes of word/excel
> > document residing on a web server WITHOUT downloading, editing and then
> > re-uploading?
> >
>
> More information would be helpful:
> 1) What platform is the web server on? Windows? Linux?
> 2) What version(s) of Office do these documents originate from?
> 3) Are these documents in the newer XML-based Office file formats?
> 4) By edit, do you mean interactively edit through a web browser or
> scripted modifications.
> 5) Is the use of Office file formats strictly necessary, can you not
> use alternatives like RTF, CSV or OpenOffice documents?
>
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