At 08:52 AM 7/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>how about PERL????
>
>it was designed to do very tasks like this and it is available for M$,
>Linux, Mac and any OS you can imagine!

I like Perl, but what about reading the MS Word .DOC format?

I'd think that VBA would be a better approach unless it is acceptable to
export the file as plain text for processing.

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