How to Preview word file in front panel ?

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Dear All

I need to preview word file in my fron panel. But when i'm using active X control and web wrowser like this topic  CLICK  the file is open with Word but i want to preview it using LABVIEW ? Can you give me some advice and ist it possible ?

[Sam_Sharp · Accepted solution]

I don't think it's possible. As far as I am aware there is no way to 'embed' office applications into other applications. Perhaps you could try to generate a PDF/HTML file from the word document and embed that in a browser control?

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Could you send me some example how can i do it ? 

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Hi 

Today I build simple script with powershell to convert all word files in the folder  into pdf and now i can preview the pdf files usindg web browser. Thanks for the idea 🙂