A long time ago (in a galaxy …) WordPerfect published a “Developer’s ToolKit” which described in complete detail the byte-by-byte layout of a WordPerfect document (Merge Codes, Tab Sets, Indents, etc). I used this information to “Merge” data fromISAM files accessed by COBOL programs on our mainframe. Does anyone know of a reference book for Word 2000 documents that will give me this information?
I have an ODBC driver with my COBOL compiler to extract this data but I will be retrieving data from several different files and this is too complex for one SQL command.
I know I can probably create a comma delimited file from my COBOL program that contains the fields and import this into Word (I haven’t persued this option yet). I would like to avoid this if possible (one less thing that a user has to remember to do).
Any help is greatly appreciated.