manipulating word documents

Hi,

What do you mean by summarize word documents?

say you  have a 10 page document, I'm trying to condense it to 1 page by extracting the main concepts of the document

Table of Content?

just thought that I'd add some more information....in order to create the summary of a large microsoft word based document I will have to use some statistical algorithms.
One such algorithm will be used to count the frequency of words...but to do this I don't know how to access individual words in a MS Word document..That's basically my problem:
How do i access individual words in MS word document so that I can manipulate it as I please?

This is a short example on how you can get at the body text of a word document... add a reference to Microsoft Word object (where the file is c:\temp\mydoc.doc)

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   
    Dim obj As Word.Application
    Dim strString As String
   
    Set obj = New Word.Application
   
    obj.ChangeFileOpenDirectory "c:\temp\"
    obj.Documents.Open FileName:="mydoc.doc", ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:= _
        False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:= _
        "", Revert:=False, WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", _
        Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto
   
    obj.Selection.WholeStory
   
    strString = obj.Selection
   
    Text1.Text = strString
   
    obj.ActiveDocument.Close
   
    Set obj = Nothing
   
End Sub

If you want to post a bit more info.. see if I can help more..

Hope that helps.
R

..you will then need to write a function to search through this text (strString)... either using the function of the word object or using your own function...

R

NO!! :) not table of contents...say u received a 200 page document and also assume that u didn't have time to read the entire document...wouldn't it be nice if u could get an overall idea of the document?...basically an abstract...that's what i'm trying to do!

..you will then need to write a function to search through this text (strString)... either using the function of the word object or using your own function...

R

Hi R,
I'm actually a newbie to VB, so to understand the code that u gave me, I'll have to do some referencing...any ideas as to what areas in VB i should look into??....another question when the document is assigned to a string, can i specify the location of a word i want to extract?

Hey R!!,
I just did a bit of surfing and realized that there was a "word object"...i wasn't aware of it since i'm new to VB.
Since u provided me with some direction i'm going to accept ur comment as answer!...i'll post another question when i get stuck!...thanks again :)

okay thanks glad i could help...

the word/excel/etc objects are quite powerful and can let you do some flashy stuff...

Cheers,
R