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AROAviva Author

Level 1

6 points

how to open embedded MS Office objects

Hi guys

i need some help here.

the company that i am working with, uses this format to distribute relevant documents for a meeting.

they will create a single MS Word documents

and inside they will create a table with relevant agenda of the meetings

and they will embed relevant MS Office objects inside,

it can be Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

when opening the document in native iPad viewer

i can see the file name, but no object to open

when open in DoctoGo Premium

i can't even see the file name, also no object to open

anybody face this issue or have any suggestion for a workaround?

please help... thx

iOS 4

Posted on May 12, 2011 8:08 PM

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r_marshall

Level 1

16 points

Posted on May 4, 2012 2:47 PM

Hi AROAviva,

I may have just figured this out -- try this appraoch and see if it works with OLE objects embedded into MS Word documents. This worked for me on PDF files embedded in an .XLS document, and I'm thrilled!

-r

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Holy Moly, I just figured out a solution!

I'll do some experimenting to figure out if this work with other file combinations, but I found a thread talking about this and it worked!

Problem:

- Colleague sends me a .XLS which has an embedded .PDF on one sheet

- Office: Mac 2011 will not open the .PDF because of lack of OLE support

Solution:

- Copy the .XLS file to a new file

- Rename the file from <filename.xls> to <filename.zip>

- Open the .ZIP with Archive Utility

- Browse into the resulting "decompressed" folder to filename>xl>embeddings

- Find the file of interest, named something like <oleObject2.bin>

- Rename to <oleObject.pdf>

VOILA! The PDF is recovered in its fully glory.

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djrajdev

Level 1

0 points

Nov 1, 2015 12:07 PM in response to AROAviva

in this case you knew the embedded object was a pdf, in my case its a zip and i don't know its contents, if i try this approach it just spawns more bin objects like oleobject2.bin etc.

any suggestions?

Oct 3, 2016 10:19 PM in response to r_marshall

You are awesome... A saviour... My hero...... Thats one of the best work around solution I have seen ever... Works like a charm....

how to open embedded MS Office objects