Re: Help Text and OfficeVision/400

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I would be careful with that idea.  For example if you have a document in
OV/400 which does an 'include' instruction will that translate from/to
Word?  If you have a document which does data/text merge will that
translate from/to Word?  If you have a document which contains help tags
will that translate from/to Word.  Having recently transferred some
documents from my favorite word processor into Word I can vouch for the
many problems with 'include' instructions.  Word's concept of a master
document is cludgy and not very WYSIWYG.

Rob Berendt

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Nothing much to it really... You have been able to access documents
in QDLS for a number of years. You need a "FULL" install of Word
and in that install, a translator is put in Word that enables it
to bring the document into Word. The translator can also be loaded
from the MS site. The trick was that if the document was not created
with Word,(like OV/400), a number of "special" functions like
bold,underscore,etc,etc didn't come across correctly. If it was
created by Word, No sweat.....




>         I have heard on the grapevine that there is an MS-Word
'extension'
> that will enable it to edit OS/400 documents directly in the QDLS folder.
> Has anyone else heard this, and perhaps pass on any details ?
>
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