Interoperability

I ain't real sure this is the place for this but I will ask anyway.
I have to place numerous word documents on a server. A user goes through a
selection process and decides what documents he or she want's. I have to
create a master document and then add all the other selected documents to
the master word doc in a specific order. To top this off I have to capture
some numbers that are entered in the word documents and fill out an excel
spreadsheet and do the math on the numbers.

I am using VB.NET. Can anyone give me an idea how I can accomplish this.
I know its abit complex but I would appreciate any insight anyone might
have.

Thanks
Tim

Word
Fri Mar 18 06:53:32 CST 2005

G'day "Tim" <gtu@comcast.net>,

If required I would be delighted to address some of these issues
commercially.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice


Tim reckoned:

>I ain't real sure this is the place for this but I will ask anyway.
>I have to place numerous word documents on a server. A user goes through a
>selection process and decides what documents he or she want's. I have to
>create a master document and then add all the other selected documents to
>the master word doc in a specific order. To top this off I have to capture
>some numbers that are entered in the word documents and fill out an excel
>spreadsheet and do the math on the numbers.
>
>I am using VB.NET. Can anyone give me an idea how I can accomplish this.
>I know its abit complex but I would appreciate any insight anyone might
>have.
>
>Thanks
>Tim
>

David
Fri Mar 18 14:39:11 CST 2005

That's all doable, but perhaps you could ask your questions on each
section, and piece your project together as each section is answered.

If time is an issue, then Steve's option would be best.

Tim wrote:
> I have to place numerous word documents on a server. A user goes
through a
> selection process and decides what documents he or she want's.

You should ba able to create a interface and display it to the users
with VB.

> I have to
> create a master document and then add all the other selected
documents to
> the master word doc in a specific order.

Using the array or collection from the user interface, simply
Insertfile with Word.

> To top this off I have to capture
> some numbers that are entered in the word documents and fill out an
excel
> spreadsheet and do the math on the numbers.

Are the numbers on each page of the doc on the server? If so, you
should be able to grab those and export to Excel. But I would build
the number into the interface that holds the filename on the servers
and access Excel through VB.