Read MS Word table

anybody no how to read a table that is in a ms word .doc file? i want to be able to display the table and also do a search on it and display the results using a jsp.
should the table be converted to ms access? would that make it easy?

anybody no how to read a table that is in a ms word .doc file?Use your mouse to double click on the icon of your ms word file. Scroll down to where your table is. Move your eyes repeatedly from left to right, moving down a bit whenever you reach the end of the line. Process the inputted characters in your head. At the end of the table stop. The knowledge should now be stored in your brain.
Seriously though, ms word files are a closed source and nobody except microsoft can read them properly. Your best bet is to use a different file format.

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test_table.vi ‏10 KB

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Hi,
>>The problem is that the instruction “.Rows.Height = 8” and
“.Cells.VerticalAlignment = Word.WdCellVerticalAlignment.wdCellAlignVerticalCenter” seems
not work, besides, when I try to adjust the rows height and vertical alignment by myself, after routine generates the table of course, Word don´t allow me to do these adjustment by hand.
The property “.Rows.Height = 8” seems to be working, because when I change to “.Rows.Height = 25” the rows height really goes to it, also, there is no problem with horizontal alignment, this is work very fine<<
I am not able to understand the issue exactly. Can you set the height for the rows using Rows.Height? I made a quick test using VBA based on the code above, it works well for me. And I can also adjust by hand after run the code.
>> “.Cells.VerticalAlignment = Word.WdCellVerticalAlignment.wdCellAlignVerticalCenter” seems
not work<<
What effect did you want to achieve? Based on the code samlpe you were setting the verical alignment to bottom however the description are center. Both center and bottom for the vertical alignment works well for me.
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Set WD = Nothing
Set WS = Nothing
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