On 25 Oct 2007 at 11:58, Frank Cox wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:20:07 +0100
> "James Courtier-Dutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > How would I get openoffice to do this information abstraction bit of the 
> > task?
> 
> If I was you, I wouldn't.  I would whip something up with C or Perl or
> whatever to do the job directly and wouldn't try to do that with OpenOffice.
> Especially when you're going to save the result in a simple CSV file.

Except his source iirc was M$ .doc files.

He could use OOo to convert .doc to .txt, then use perl to munge the 
latter.  The conversion can be done from the command line with suitable 
incantations.
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