how do I format a .txt file into a .doc file using vb?

Question

I read a text file as input and want to modify the data readin by increasing font size,underline the header and write out into a word document file using visual basic.

Answer 1

There are several ways that you can do it. If you are using a version post Office 2K3, all office products are based on a schema which is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx. You can create an XML document conforming to the schema and save it to a .doc file and word will interpert it as a word document. The XML approach is fairly flexible and gives you access to all formatting etc. Another approach is to encode whatever you want to present as RTF. YOu can get more information on this at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec_2.asp. Another option is to use the Office objects inside of VB to code a document. And finally there's always good ole (note sarcasm) OLE where you basically shell out to Office and control it programmatically. I encourage against this.

Answer 2

I think that this is what you are looking for.

Run a few tests to get used to it. Save some formatted text in Wordpad as type RTF then open the file with notepad to see the encoding.

Answer 3

the easiest way to do it is read each line of your source .txt file and write that to your runtime created .doc file