Importing Data from within a Word Document

[Eukanuba]

Hi guys,

I'm working on a database in FMP 9A and i need to call out specific items from a ".doc" file and import it into various fields...

for instance... i need to search a document and pick out the word "call" then put in the entire sentence including "call" into a field

also i want to put in images from a .doc document into a container field automatically.

thanks in advance...

Eukanuba

[Matthew F]

As far as extracting the text from a .doc file you might want to do a search in the Forums for 'grep'.

As far as the images go I think you're in for more of a challenge. This might be done programatically but it would be a challenge from within Filemaker. This site gives a method for converting .doc to .docx and then a method for extracting images from a .docx file.