Edit MS Word in a rich text editor on the web

[CUA web dev]

Hello developers. We have developed a document management system for a client.
In the last minute of the project, he tacked on a requirement. He would like to
edit a MS Word document that is stored on the server in a web page (much like
editing HTML content with eWebEdit Pro or soEditor) - not download, edit and
upload to the document management system.

We have racked our brains out trying to figure exactly how to do such a task.
One option is to have CFMX7 open the word doc with a command line option in
Word and export to HTML. Then, port that HTML to a rich text editor. The finish
and submit would upload the HTML content to the server and have CF use another
MS Word command line option to port the data on the file saved on the server.

Does anyone have such a idea? Has anyone accomplished something like this?

[Stressed_Simon]

It really depends on how complicated the word document is?

If it is relatively simple, then my advice to you is to keep nearly all the
actual text in a db and an .rtf template with unique handles in it. Then when
he makes changes you can edit the information in the db. Then to output it use
cffile to read the doc and then use Replace() to swap the unique handle for the
text in the db, then cfcontent to output the word doc!!!

Make sense?