ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

[Kent Johnson]

Ben Scott wrote:
> 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.

or (3) Python. Python can access COM objects on win32 so anything can do 
from VBA you should be able to do from Python.

Kent