Report 6i and Blob

Currently, I have a word document (BLOB) stored in a table.
The goal is to fetch the BLOB and display the content of the word doc in the report.
I've tried to add a report field which maps to the db column as Binary LOB with File Format property = 'text'. (I've also tried File Format property = OLE and few others. none of them works)
All I am getting is bunch of scrambled character.
What am I missing here?
Thanks!

I looked around Metalink and found...
Unable to Display Complete MS-Word Document from Oracle Reports [ID 233445.1].
It mentioned one work around is to transform the ms-doc to a text file.
However, I am more interesting in what you mentioned earlier... "Split the original in several one page doc."
Is there a programming way to achieve the goal for splitting the original doc in several pages while save into DB via Oracle Form? or do we just have to split the doc manually?
Thanks.

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/d1/802cfc454211d189710000e8322d00/frameset.htm
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