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Thanks for your responses, I obviously did not explain my problem to well and have since found a work around using saveas2
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Thanks for your responses, I obviously did not explain my problem to well and have since found a work around using saveas2

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I would like to store the words from a word document, .doc or .docx, in a database field in order to speed up searches.<br />
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I have used the textstream command in access 10 vba to convert my text documents but wondered about the best way to extract the words from a Word document.<br />
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I thought about opening the .doc and saving it as a .txt and then using the textstream command to extract the data but wondered if there was a quicker, cleaner method of doing this?
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I would like to store the words from a word document, .doc or .docx, in a database field in order to speed up searches.

I have used the textstream command in access 10 vba to convert my text documents but wondered about the best way to extract the words from a Word document.

I thought about opening the .doc and saving it as a .txt and then using the textstream command to extract the data but wondered if there was a quicker, cleaner method of doing this?

extract words from a document and store in a database field

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.