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Karen

I am creating a web site for our engineering group that maintains links to a
variety of documentation. The web page uses frames with the standard
contents on the left, banner on top, and main page on the right.

Currently within the main page I have text to show visitors which documents
have been recently updated. I would like to change this from text to a file
that can be changed by the engineers when they update a document.

I added an inline frame which opened a Word doc. The problem with this
approach is that I get all the Word toolbars instead of just the text.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

Many thanks for your help. I have found many good suggestions from this
discussion group.

Karen
 
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Jim Buyens

Personally, I would avoid the text file approach in favor
of:

o Storing the notices of new/change in a database.
o Scanning the documentation library to look for new
files dates.
o Some combination of the above.

The exact approach would depend on how many documents
there are, how often they change, and what process the
engineers use for releasing a new or changed document.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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Andrew Murray

I think the only "plain text" format with out causing MS Word to open the
document is to save the file(s) as plain ASCII text i.e. note pad or Wordpad -
this means *most* of the formatting of the document will be lost. (i.e notepad
has limited capacity in terms of fonts, colours, size, text formatting (bold,
underline etc).

Word pad is a little better. but short of using Word if you want the document to
be more than just paragraphs of text, html would be the way to go.

Could you have the engineers update their docs, email them to you, then you can
convert them to Frontpage/HTML and load them so they will display in the InLine
frame?
 
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