MS Word format in my own editor

[palak23]

Dear all,

I have made an editor using Qt framework in C++. It is having all editor functions include cut,copy,paste,select,spell check etc.

By default I save this document with .txt extension. I want to extend this functionality with allowing additional extension .doc.

I could save the document in .doc format of Microsoft. and when open that document in my editor then also it is working with defining it as of rich text format and excluded html tags.

But now if I open that doc file in MS office itself and then open that modified document again in my editor shows me junk characters along with that.

I think this might be formatting problem that customized editor would not have all formats what they are defined in traditional MS Word.

So my Question is how do I resolve this problem? Do I need to add some dll or libraries? Are they available to include local project?

Best regards,
Palak Shah

[arnaudk]

Yes, MS Word uses a proprietary binary format in its documents. Worse, the format varies from version to version. You might want to look into how Open Office works with MS Word documents to find out more.

[palak23]

Yes, MS Word uses a proprietary binary format in its documents. Worse, the format varies from version to version. You might want to look into how Open Office works with MS Word documents to find out more.

Thanks arnaudk,

Great idea.

Regards,
Palak Shah

[palak23]

Thanks arnaudk,

Great idea.

Regards,
Palak Shah

Now I came to know that saving file through my editor the format would be of txt itself and modifying contents in word editor will add extra formatting but that would be again in html/xml. When I open with txt shows me that html/xml tags. But when I open in my editor chinese characters are shown as encoding issue.

Can I open word file programmetically in txt as I have made filter to remove html/xml tags.

Regards,
Palak Shah