A program written before office 2007 to read docx

[charlie123]

Hi,

I have a server program written in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. It mainly
converts a client's word doc to html. This program was done three years ago,
before office 2007. But it fails to convert docx to html.

What should I do? I am considering the following options:

1, upgrade office 2003 to allow it read docx
From one of Microsoft web pages, there is a file, which can be
downloaded, and installed. It allows the Word under office 2003 to read docx.
Would it allow my own program to read docx? Do I need to recompile my program
with new library? How to get the library?

2, buy office 2007
Buy and install office 2007 in my server machine. What should I do
additionally to allow my program to read docx and convert it to html?

3, buy latest visual studio
I don’t know if this is really necessary. With or without above two
options, do I need to recompile my code, and compile it under the latest
visual studio?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Charlie

 

[Graham Mayor]

Not knowing anthing about your application it is difficult to suggest a way
forward. However docx is essentially XLM format in a zipped wrapper. If you
change the name from docx to zip you will be able to view the XLM elements
that make up the file and see where your application fits in with that..

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