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[russian777]

Hey thanks everyone for posting responses , i genuinely appreciate the help.

1. Need some one to explain how to open files such as word files using code.

[dargueta]

That would be very tricky without some sort of API or documentation on the file format, unless you're using embedded VBA, not C/C++. I found some doc specs on the Word 97 format, but that's it.

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[manux]

The word format is proprietary, There is no public specs about it and you would need to reverse engineer it(like Google did for 97-2003's .doc I think).

Though there are other open source formats, like OpenOffice's.
Good luck anyways :) .

[WingedPanther]

OpenOffice.org has published specs (not complete) on several MS Office document formats. I was reading the Excel format earlier today and it was both thorough and unpleasant.

[dargueta]

...like many other Microsoft products.

[yuyujoke]

dargueta said:

...like many other Microsoft products.

i think so~

[TkTech]

The new version of Office, and all future versions, support the Open Document standard. I would advise you don't bother with the older formats, whose structure changed dramatically between releases, and stick with the future (*_^) OpenOffice also natively supports this format.