I have a request of a client to embed a form fill in a webpage (it is a .dotx ext).
Is it possible to embed these in html? I’m not finding anything in Google.
There may be an add on you can have in an ASP(.NET) page that can open word docs in the browser, but other than that, you would have to have a form on the page then output a docx.
Note: dotx is actually a template file, you probably want a docx.
Why not just make an HTML form? Depending on the language you could probably spit out a MS Word doc.
Yeah, this seems the logical choice, but the estimate wasn’t quoted for that kind of potential work. The project is actually just a login script with user permissions and files that can be downloaded (or viewed and now filled out) based on permission group.
I just thought I’d check to see if there was an easy way before I adjusted the quote. Likely they will either drop the idea or we will have to adjust the quote.
Thanks for the feedback! It’ll probably end up being the above solution, or just allowing the user to download the docx and fill it out themselves. Unfortunately their current host is running a LAMP setup so the MS option is probably not viable.
Ok, I haven’t looked it up, but you probably could do it in PHP. But just allowing to download the file is the easiest method on your end.
Easy way would be to use an iframe to hold the document within a page.
This of course requires word be installed on the computer. Also doesn’t handle the return path.
A better bet might be to use google docs spreadsheets webform capabilities.