Word – PDF file opened with LibreOffice, now conversion to Word needed

You can do this by inserting an INCLUDETEXT field in your Word document

• Obtain or create an XSL tranform that outputs valid WordPressingML (Word 2003, 2007). I found one that looks like it may be used by IE here C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wbem\en-US\xml.xsl

• Insert the INCLUDETEXT field, like this:

  { INCLUDETEXT "c:\\a\\myxml.xml" \t c:\\a\\myxml.xsl \c xml }

When your source XML file changes you will need to update each INCLUDETEXT field (highlight it and press F3) or add some VBA to refresh the fields when the document is loaded.

Thank you for your excellent article. It works! Not for me at at first but then I discovered you have to turn off 'protected mode' in adobe X. I don't have this problem at all on adobe 9. It seems to me that the industry is going backwards on functionality in the name of security.

So in Adobe Reader X do:

1. Make sure open cross docs.. is unchecked. (as you said)
2. Turn off protected mode: Edit » Preferences » General
3. Search and replace /Type/Action/S/URI/URI with /Type/Action/S/Launch/F( using a suitable hex editor

There is no easy solution for what we want to do which is allow any user with only a PDF reader with no settings to bother about, to navigate around a folder.
But thanks again for all your work and the light it throws on the subject.