Modifying MS WORD documents stored in BLOBS. (Oracle 9i Release 9.2.0.4.0)

I have a need to replace a string of characters in an MS Word document that is stored in a BLOB field in an Oracle 9i database.
Background: We have a large number of MS Word documents (~50,000) and many of them contain links to other Word documents stored on various servers throughout our network. We are moving a number of these servers, thus invalidating these links. I need to be able to update these links without having to open up every one of these documents and doing it manually.
Is it possible, using PL/SQL, to update these links in these MS Word documents that are stored in Oracle? I have currently written a quick PL/SQL routine that will find the links and provide their location within the document, but I am not sure how I can update them. The problem, as I see it, is that if the characters that I am replacing differ in length than those that are currently in the existing document, then I would have to shift the remaining bytes of the document either left or right to preserve the integrity of the document.
Is this possible, or should I pursue another option?

It does not have to manual, but I think you will need to use word to modify and save the documents.
The most automated process I can think of would be to write a client program to fetch a blob, run word, and have a word macro or add in to make the edits save, and then the client program updates with the new blob.
With that number of documents, I would probably try to fetch a bunch of blobs and have word process them all before updating them for performance reasons.
Unfortunately I would have no clue how to do the word automation, but I wouldn't touch those blobs using pl/sql

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