Software of scripting to grab data from MS word file and fill in Excel fields?
 

I have a 90 page financial report from MS word that I get each month.
I would like to find a software package or scripting tool that will
allow me to automate the process of grabbing #s from the ms word file
and filling in fields in an excel file. I have a feel that there may
be quite of programming involved in doing this. But perhaps there are
some more efficient solutions out there. I would appreciate any
advice. Thanks

Software of scripting to grab data from MS word file and fill in Excel fields?
 

I think you will need to get a excel/office consultant to write such a
thing 'cus it will depend on how you data is set out and lots of
things that are speifc to your siutation. If you have a newer version
of office, you might like to try saving the file as XML, and then
opening it in word. - it may take you part of the way there.

Good luck

Software of scripting to grab data from MS word file and fill inExcel fields?
 

I've seen lots of people ask how to use Excel as a database to populate a word
document (mailmerge from within MSWord). But I haven't seen your question much
(if ever).

You may want to post in the MSWord newsgroup if you don't get a real good
solution here.


Joe Blo wrote:

I have a 90 page financial report from MS word that I get each month.
I would like to find a software package or scripting tool that will
allow me to automate the process of grabbing #s from the ms word file
and filling in fields in an excel file. I have a feel that there may
be quite of programming involved in doing this. But perhaps there are
some more efficient solutions out there. I would appreciate any
advice. Thanks

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Dave Peterson