Know you can grab a few lines of normally formatted text (fe not heading info) like this:

break on

$filename = "c:\test.doc"

$word = createobject("word.application")

if $word
 $= $word.documents.open("$filename")
 $text = $word.activedocument.content.text
 ?"text=$text"
 $word.quit
 $word = 0
endif

exit 1

-Shawn

[ 03. December 2002, 18:48: Message edited by: Shawn ]