thanks grant for the suggestion my problem is that the user will most likely be using a pc - it looks like i will forget about this for the moment i think
thnaks again ../allan "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > Allan, > > A while back, I looked into this (parsing Word files with MacPerl). At that > time, it seemed the best way to do this on a Mac would be to have your Perl > script run an AppleScript to make Word save the file as html (because a text > file won't include the formats you're interested in). > > The MacPerl/AppleScript combo seemed easy & powerful. Unfortunately, I have > never learned much AppleScript, so I didn't get far. > > Regards, > Tim Grant > DBA, Knowledge Express > > >>../allan > > >> does someone know if it's at all > >>possible to actually read a microsoft word file and convert > >>it to some reasonable text format?
