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Exporting webpage to .doc

 
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Hello all,

I am trying to export what is displayed on a page to a .doc file when the user clicks an "Export" button. I am really not sure where to start with this as I am fairly new to javascript. I have been manually copy/pasting the page into a Word document, and ran into a few problems even with that. My tables display correctly in Word, but I have some text in a row that can either be hidden or visible (display: none, display: block) and is toggled by a link. When I copy the page over to Word, it brings along the hidden text, which I don't want. The page is used to generate reports which may later need to be editted, and the hidden text is just a feature of the webpage to aid the user and not needed for the report. So my question is how do I take only what is VISIBLE on a page (or ideally a particular frame) and export it to another format? Thanks!
 
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Adam,
To export to Word, you need to go to the server. You can't do it in JavaScript alone. On the server you could use a library to write out a doc file. I like Apache POI.
 
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Thanks for the reply Jeanne. I'll look into Apache POI.
 
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