storing a Word document as a customprop

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> Bummer. I can't use RTF because the documents contain tables, and  
> I'm pretty much stuck with that. I'll use my own FORMalizer utility  
> to overlay fields on a PNG of the blank document and fill them in  
> that way. I was exploring other possibilities...

You could use a DOCX (Office Open XML) file instead of DOC to  
accomplish what you are after. A DOCX file is just a zipped file that  
you can decompress using revZip. Once you unzip the file there is a ./ 
word/document.xml file that has the contents that you see when you  
open the DOCX file in Word or Pages. You could perform your search/ 
replace on that file, zip everything back up and you are good to go.

Regards,

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Trevor DeVore
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