How do you open an Office Document within AMS 4.0?

[Timmer2100]

I 'm trying to take a price chart from "http://www.prodj.com/electric-bluze-bros/mobiledjservice/rates2001.html" and make it viewable within my project. It's too hard to keep the chart straight using a text box. Is there any way to open a ".doc file" or keep a straight chart in AMS 4.0?

[Corey]

Re: How do you open an Office Document within AMS 4.0?

If you're familiar with Flash, using the Flash Charting Components makes graphing of any sort a breeze, and it also allows you to let your user switch the type of graph they view at runtime, i.e. pie chart, bar graph, line graph, etc...

I'm not sure about the .doc question but it seems to me that if your source page is HTML then using a web object might work...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[eric_darling]

Re: How do you open an Office Document within AMS 4.0?

The only way I know of to do this directly inside the AMS interface is to open the .doc file inside a web object. It only works, of course, if the end user has the proper version of MS Word on their computer, and there are some acknowledged problems according to Microsoft with displaying Office documents inside Internet Explorer, so beware.

Incidentally, what you have on that URL you provided isn't a chart, per se. It's a table. HTML handles that very nicely, as you see on that HTML page you referenced. So why don't you just copy the source code (view source, select all, copy) inside Internet Explorer, create a new text document using Notepad, then paste, save as rates2001.html and then specify that file inside a web object inside AMS?

Very simple to do, really, and probably the best solution if you like the specific layout at that URL - you can duplicate it just about exactly.