Hi all,
I have this problem i can't figure out and havent been able to find help anywhere on how to do it. Theres a HTML form with inputs for the user to enter data, and what i want to do is, upon clicking a button, run a process that will capture everything (layout, formats, data entry etc), and save this into a new word document.

does anyone have any ideas?

This can be done using the COM objects.These objects can be used from diffrent programming languages.(ex : ASP.NET,ASP,Vb.Net)
What language do you want to use ?

Using php, you can save it into a text document. As for a Microsoft Word document, I have no idea.

Why don't you just save the data to a html file - Word will open the html page with formatted contents as a web page.

Word doesn't like some advanced css elements but if you're only dealing with text it shouldn't be a problem.

Do you need the information to be saved on your server with the info in a word doc? Will the process create a new word doc everytime someone executes the form, or do you want all the information to go into the same file.

Or do you just want the info to display in a word doc on the user client when the form is executed.

Give more info. Let us know exactly what you need to happen, thr process and what the end result will be.. Then we can narrow down the options for you.

And, what kind of server are you running? Apache or Windows, or other? This will help us determine the best technology to use, asp, php, etc..

Just a thought here.

One problem with transfering html into word is that when you do this the code gets messed up. Hidden code is added. What I do is take the code and put it into notepad and then copy and paste it into word. I know this is not what you're looking for, but I just wanted to mention why you can't directly do it.

Cheerios

Originally Posted by cheerios

Just a thought here.

One problem with transfering html into word is that when you do this the code gets messed up. Hidden code is added. What I do is take the code and put it into notepad and then copy and paste it into word. I know this is not what you're looking for, but I just wanted to mention why you can't directly do it.

Cheerios

Yes you do get messy code if the html is formatted with colours and styles but I've found that pages using basic markup are ok... ie

<h1>User input name</h1>
<p>User input results here....</p>

Thanks all. This helped me 2