How do I link to MS word from html & auto navigate to a search phr

[Guest]

Basically, I know the document name and the phrase I want to find. I do not
have bookmarks in the word docuemtn, and would prefer not to add them (lots
of documents, lots of search phrases!). I know if I had a bookmark I could
use location/wordDoc.doc#bookmark , but don't have bookmark.

So, how do I do it?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Basically, I know the document name and the phrase I want to find. I
do not have bookmarks in the word docuemtn, and would prefer not to
add them (lots of documents, lots of search phrases!). I know if I
had a bookmark I could use location/wordDoc.doc#bookmark , but don't
have bookmark.

So, how do I do it?

From pure HTML, there's no way to do that. If you can use ASP, write a
VBScript routine that uses automation to run the search. The technique for
creating an automation object is essentially similar to that in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterDev/ControlWordFromXL.htm.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

This is close, but I need to do it from a JSP. I can get close using a macro
in word and do location/wordDoc.doc /mMyMacro, but at that point I don't know
if a way to pass the text I want to look for in (the macro would of course
search for the given text). How do I pass parameters to the macro?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Unfortunately there is no way to pass a parameter to a macro through
Word's command line. You'd have to use a text file that the script
writes to a known location and that the macro looks for, or a known
registry entry. I'm not sure what you can accomplish inside the Java
sandbox -- I'm not a web programmer.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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