Checking for Updates

[Jeff Hall]

What method is used to check for updates to a program?

I want to improve my MSWord-based application so that users can click a
button to check online for updates and download them. At the moment, it
simply calls a HTML page and passes the current version number as a query
string. The online file uses JavaScript to read the version number and if
it is less than the current number, it tells the user (via a JS "alert"
message) to download the new installation.

What I would like is for the application to be able to detect the updated
file and download it automatically if the user asks for it.

Here is the rub: what method can I use to return a message to the
application so that it knows whether an update has been found? I can
implement an ASP solution if required.

As a rider to that, is there a VBA statement that can check if there is and
active Internet connection present?

 

[Jeff Hall]

Is there a clean, efficient way to copy a style definition from one
currently open document to another new, but unsaved document?

The "ActiiveDocument" is the new one.

 

[Jeff Hall]

Sorry I attached that to the wrong thread
I'll repost if there's no response here