Import Formatted Text From Word Document

[pauldavey]

Problem

You cannot copy text with formatting from MS Word into a LabVIEW free label.  See this suggestion.

This VI uses ActiveX to get the text from the active Word Document and then copies the explicit formatting applied to the text into a LabVIEW string indicator so it can be copied to a free label.  It does not work with Word Styles/Themes.  This works well for colour-coded text code from an editor such as Notepad++ using the export plugin NppExport "Copy RTF to Clipboard" pasted into Word. It does run very slowly because it copies the formatting character by character, so takes several minutes for multi-page documents, but it is really just intended for code snippets. I don't know of a quicker way to copy the formatting from Word.

Input Word Document:

LabVIEW Code (LabVIEW 2014 SP1):

Output: