Hi,

Would anyone know a way (or of a component) of automatically converting word
documents to standard, raw, text data.
I have to convert (and import into a database) about 2000 files. Doing this,
either manually, or by using OLE automation to open, copy, paste the data is
going to be an extremely laborious task.

Any help GREATLY received,
Thanks  Mark.

If you are importing the files straight into a database why not use
TBlobField.LoadFromFile().  You could test for file existence in your source
directory and then move the file to a success directory continuing the loop
until the source directory is empty.

Peter

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<<Mark Button:
Doing this, either manually, or by using OLE automation to
open, copy, paste the data is going to be an extremely
laborious task.

I don't know a component that does this. Automating it, the
only real chore would be getting the names of the files to
open - after that, opening the docs in Word and saving them
as text files would be very simple (no need to cut and
paste).

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