ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
> I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them.
> I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job.

  Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should be very
possible with either (1) VBA or (2) AutoIt.  VBA is "Visual Basic for
Applications", is built-in to MS Office, and it can do just about
anything, provided you can stomach the syntax.  Still, for something
like this, it should do well.  AutoIt is a third-party, freeware
automation scripting tool for 'doze.  It's kind of like expect(1) for
the Windows GUI.  It's useful for scripting that which is not designed
to be scripting.

>  As usual Ben, you're right.
>  P.S. Kind of takes the fun out of heckling Ben ;^)

  If I didn't come up with good info now and again, nobody would put
up with me at all.  ;-)

-- Ben