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how do I read data out of a word doc?

A buddy of mine needs to take a few hundred data sheets and do a statistical
analysis of about 10 parameters each. I told him I could write a labview
program to do it for him, then I realized they're not in excel they're in a
Word table. Is there any way to read pieces of data from a Word table
without spending $500 on a toolbox?
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Try to copy-paste the tables to Excel. Might help.


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> A buddy of mine needs to take a few hundred data sheets and do a
statistical
> analysis of about 10 parameters each. I told him I could write a labview
> program to do it for him, then I realized they're not in excel they're in
a
> Word table. Is there any way to read pieces of data from a Word table
> without spending $500 on a toolbox?
>
>
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Another way to do it is to control MS Word via ActiveX. You just have to open the document, read data from all included tables and do the calculations. You have some examples on haw to use ActiveX in Labview folder\examples\comm\. Also, you can find everything about needed methods and properties in VBA Help included in MS Word. Also, if those docs contain just tables, you can save them as text files (each cell will be a text row).
Good luck!
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