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Tables word problem in Ruby

Hai anh Le

12/13/2008 2:47:00 AM

My problem is about table in Word. With Ruby I can access, modify, save
as... word document to txt document. But I don't find the code to work
with tables. I see that every tables is destroyed its format if I save
as word format-> txt format. Have anybody know about the issue ? I only
want the code detect tables and maintain it. If unfortunately, we have
no way maintain, we can remove all tables from txt document (because
it's not necessary)
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David Mullet

12/13/2008 1:45:00 PM

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Hai anh Le wrote:
> My problem is about table in Word. With Ruby I can access, modify, save
> as... word document to txt document. But I don't find the code to work
> with tables. I see that every tables is destroyed its format if I save
> as word format-> txt format. Have anybody know about the issue ? I only
> want the code detect tables and maintain it. If unfortunately, we have
> no way maintain, we can remove all tables from txt document (because
> it's not necessary)

My first thought is that you could convert your tables to tab-delimited
text prior to saving the document. This can be done by calling the
ConvertToText method on each table, passing it a value of 1
(wdSeparateByTabs):

Where doc is your Word document object:

for table in doc.Content.Tables
table.ConvertToText(1)
end

Does that help?

David

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Hai anh Le

12/15/2008 3:46:00 AM

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Hi David

Thank very much for your help. I test both VBA code in word document and
Ruby code. The result is very good :)

I have small query. I want to read word document, convert it to plain
text and display in website, then find some word follow special
requirement (don't find in tables). So I have idea that I will convert
word document to plain text; mark begin, end point of tables by some
special symbol. It help me to recognize and don't search in table area.
Your blog is very useful. I have found many information in the past. I
find the code to add some characters into word document but I can't
search more information in order to working with tables. Do you know
about the way to recognize begin and end of tables?

I want to display table with border(e.g. box border). And are you have
any way to do it?

Hai Anh

Ps : Can I contact with you by email?

David Mullet wrote:
> My first thought is that you could convert your tables to tab-delimited
> text prior to saving the document. This can be done by calling the
> ConvertToText method on each table, passing it a value of 1
> (wdSeparateByTabs):
>
> Where doc is your Word document object:
>
> for table in doc.Content.Tables
> table.ConvertToText(1)
> end
>
> Does that help?
>
> David
>
> http://rubyonwindows.bl...
> http://rubyonwindows.bl.../search/label/word

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Hai anh Le

12/16/2008 2:21:00 AM

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Anyone?
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