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Rich-Text Editing of Word Documents on the Web via ASP.NET

My users upload Word 2007 documents to our site and I'd like to load them into a rich edit control of some kind so the users can make modifications/ comment, etc.

What mechanisms are available to:

  • load the Word document via ASP.NET, and
  • parse/format/display the document in a rich editing control?

Also, what kinds of rich editing controls are best to use in this circumstance?

Solution

  • I believe that telerik's Rad Editor supports the ability to paste from word.

    From the site:

    Seven Ways for Pasting from Word

    Telerik ASP.NET Editor offers a number of features that help the user paste formatted content from Microsoft Word and other applications, and apply different types of format stripping:

    1. Strip Word-formatting on paste Strip
    2. Word-formatting on paste (cleaning fonts and sizes)
    3. Forced format
    4. stripping on Paste Word Content in
    5. Clipboard Interception Strip
    6. Word-formatting after paste Paste
    7. plain text Paste as HTML

    Here is the demo