Can't Read Word Document

[seeking_knowledge]

:brokenheart;

I looking for a way to uplade a (word) document and read it. I can read text
files but not word files. I believe the CFAction -Read is having issues reading
the control language in the Word document. I need to be able to read the word
document as well as any bold, underlines, etc....

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[ajpowellatl]

I would suggest using COM, if it is an option. There you can read the word
file, reformat it into a more friendly format like HTML or plain text. That
way, it's much easier to manipulate than pure ms word.

more help can be found here:

[url]http://cfregex.com/cfcomet/[/url]

HTH,

Andy

[seeking_knowledge]

I don't think I can use the COM object because I don't control the server I'm
using. I'm reading the file and storing it into a variable. I tried cfcontent
but I'm not sure how it works.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,