Word + win32ole - how to find formatting of a word?

10-25-2008

HI! I'm trying to use Ruby and win32ole to parse a Word document. So
far, I'm able to extract the style and text of each paragraph. That
works great to convert it into individual divs (in the HTML CSS sense).

Now, inside the paragraphs, there are certain words that have special
formatting (for e.g. the name of a command which is in monospace) - I'm
trying to find how to extract those special cases. Does anyone know how
to achieve that?

Appreciate your help - thanks!

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/25/2008 | 4:33 PM.

10-25-2008

> HI! I'm trying to use Ruby and win32ole to parse a Word document. So
> far, I'm able to extract the style and text of each paragraph. That
> works great to convert it into individual divs (in the HTML CSS sense).
>
> Now, inside the paragraphs, there are certain words that have special
> formatting (for e.g. the name of a command which is in monospace) - I'm
> trying to find how to extract those special cases. Does anyone know how
> to achieve that?
>

Dear Mohit,

you could save the Word file as an html and then extract the relevant information...
I did that using OpenOffice and got a file containing the font information in the following form.

<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
A command in Linux
Libertine
A text in Bitstream
Charter
</BODY>

If you read in the text of that file as a String, you can then find the relevant bits using regexps.

Best regards,

Axel

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10-26-2008

Axel Etzold wrote:
>> HI! I'm trying to use Ruby and win32ole to parse a Word document. So
>> far, I'm able to extract the style and text of each paragraph. That
>> works great to convert it into individual divs (in the HTML CSS sense).
>>
>> Now, inside the paragraphs, there are certain words that have special
>> formatting (for e.g. the name of a command which is in monospace) - I'm
>> trying to find how to extract those special cases. Does anyone know how
>> to achieve that?
>>
>
> Dear Mohit,
>
> you could save the Word file as an html and then extract the relevant information...
> I did that using OpenOffice and got a file containing the font information in the following form.
>
>
> <BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
> A command in Linux
> Libertine
> A text in Bitstream
> Charter
> </BODY>
>

Hi Axel

Thanks for replying! Converting to HTML and working with that is my
last option actually. In a well-written document, I found that using
Word to return style information about the paragraph is a lot less work
and relatively easy to work with. I guess it's time to consider your
suggestion!

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/26/2008 | 5:44 PM.

10-26-2008

Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> Axel Etzold wrote:
>>> HI! I'm trying to use Ruby and win32ole to parse a Word document.
>>> So far, I'm able to extract the style and text of each paragraph.
>>> That works great to convert it into individual divs (in the HTML CSS
>>> sense).
>>>
>>> Now, inside the paragraphs, there are certain words that have
>>> special formatting (for e.g. the name of a command which is in
>>> monospace) - I'm trying to find how to extract those special cases.
>>> Does anyone know how to achieve that?
>>>
>>
>> Dear Mohit,
>> you could save the Word file as an html and then extract the
>> relevant information...
>> I did that using OpenOffice and got a file containing the font
>> information in the following form.
>>
>
> Hi Axel
>
> Thanks for replying! Converting to HTML and working with that is my
> last option actually. In a well-written document, I found that using
> Word to return style information about the paragraph is a lot less
> work and relatively easy to work with. I guess it's time to consider
> your suggestion!
>
Actually, after digging around, I found that this gets me somewhere there:
words = doc.Words
words.each {|w|
index += 1
ft = w.Font.Name
ftHash[ft] = 1
}

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/26/2008 | 9:14 PM.

10-26-2008

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:14:53 +0900
> Von: Mohit Sindhwani <>
> An: ruby-
> Betreff: Re: Word + win32ole - how to find formatting of a word?

> Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> > Axel Etzold wrote:
> >>> HI! I'm trying to use Ruby and win32ole to parse a Word document.
> >>> So far, I'm able to extract the style and text of each paragraph.
> >>> That works great to convert it into individual divs (in the HTML CSS
> >>> sense).
> >>>
> >>> Now, inside the paragraphs, there are certain words that have
> >>> special formatting (for e.g. the name of a command which is in
> >>> monospace) - I'm trying to find how to extract those special cases.
> >>> Does anyone know how to achieve that?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Dear Mohit,
> >> you could save the Word file as an html and then extract the
> >> relevant information...
> >> I did that using OpenOffice and got a file containing the font
> >> information in the following form.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Axel
> >
> > Thanks for replying! Converting to HTML and working with that is my
> > last option actually. In a well-written document, I found that using
> > Word to return style information about the paragraph is a lot less
> > work and relatively easy to work with. I guess it's time to consider
> > your suggestion!
> >
> Actually, after digging around, I found that this gets me somewhere there:
> words = doc.Words
> words.each {|w|
> index += 1
> ft = w.Font.Name
> ftHash[ft] = 1
> }
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers,
> Mohit.
> 10/26/2008 | 9:14 PM.
>
>

Dear Mohit,

you're welcome

It's always nice to best answer one's own questions , isn't it ? Thanks for the info !

Best regards,

Axel

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10-27-2008

Axel Etzold wrote:
> you're welcome

> It's always nice to best answer one's own questions , isn't it ? Thanks for the info !
>
Thanks for your reply again! Yes, it's good to find the answer yourself
and then share it

I find that Win32ole is quite powerful, just that it needs a little
looking around to work with it.

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/27/2008 | 11:19 AM.

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