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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: VBA (?) Utility to export info on Word 2010 styles to .csv or .txt file

« on: February 16, 2012, 03:11 AM »

IDEA: VBA (?) Utility to export info on Word 2010 styles to .csv or .txt file

I am looking for a utility or VBA script that would extract information on all styles available in a specified Word 2010 document and send that information to a .csv or .txt file. I believe there are standard attributes or properties for Word styles, and the exported file should be organized according to those standard properties.

The output file should look something like this:

Style Name 1
Font Name:
Font Size:
Style Type: Character, Paragraph, or both
etc...

If anybody can suggest a script or utility that would do this, that would be very helpful.

Thanks for your time.

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General Software Discussion / Looking for software tools to extract specific text info from html pages

« on: February 15, 2010, 02:04 AM »

Dear fellow DC members,

I am looking for software tools that would enable me to extract information from a large number of html pages. These html pages have already been downloaded to my computer's hard drive, so no web access is needed. For each file, I want to extract a person's name, email address, and phone number. Not all this information will exist on each html page. Each html page contains the information for one individual.

I now extract information manually by:
Loading an html page into Note Tab Standard
Stripping html tags
Cut and paste (into another text file) the desired information
Repeat ad nauseum

Currently there is a subdirectory of approximately 500 such html pages. I want to automate this process so it can be executed on other data sources. I am NOT a programmer, so if someone suggests using a scripting language and regular expressions, please be prepared to walk me through the process, but I am not afraid of the command line. I would prefer to use one or more software tools, whether command line or GUI-based.

If anyone can suggest either free or commercial (not too expensive!) software tools to accomplish this task, I will be grateful. I have been a member of Donation Coder for a while, and downloaded some tools (use FARR every day), but this is the first time I have asked for your help in solving a problem. I hope you guys and gals can come up with something. If I have posted this request in an inappropriate location, please let me know.

Thanks for your time.

Ted Rose
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