Word docs for everyone

[Matthew Bin <mattbin -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM>]

Hi folks.  Got a bit of a problem here.

I wrote a small application in Word97 VBA for a marketing guy at our
company.  This appication just runs a few forms and has a few buttons
that display marketing-type text.  Very small, very simple, and above
all, very compact--117K for the whole thing.  Makes it very e-mailable
and far more interesting (we think) than a mere document.  More
interactive and so on you see.  There are about 10 text boxes of
100-300 words each.  I have used four forms to organise and display
this information.

The problem is that not everyone the marketing guy contacts has
Word97.  (He contacts a lot of provincial and federal governmental
people, many of whom use Wordperfect, a Canadian product eh?).  There
is no way I know of to convert VBA for use in earlier Word versions,
and the Word 97 is of a prohibitive size (roughly 3.8Mb).  What to do?

We've thought about developing the same thing in another medium, say a
Macromedia product of some kind.  However, I have no idea what is
involved there--size of finished file and so on.

My questions are:

1.  Is there any way to cross Word 97 VBA to other versions?

2.  Is there any other way to do this in some other format?  I realise
that we could use real live Visual Basic (or, if I knew how, Visual
C++ or something like), but we were hoping to use something we already
have kicking around, or that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

The file must be less than 200K.

I'd appreciate any suggestions... thanks in advance!

M@


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