Extract text from Excel and MS-Word documents

Question

Please, do you guys have any idea how can i programmatically extract text from Excel and MS-Word documents?

I've tried to just remove all non-word and surrogate "characters" but i still have all formatting stuff such as font name, size, etc.

Thanks a lot!

Henrique

Answer 1

Well, the Latest News section on here (see side bar to right) certainly helps in that respect.

If you also join the Code Project site (http://www.codeproject.com/), they'll send you at least one newsletter a day which lists (and links to) relevant articles that have recently been published on other news sites, not just on computing but on science and technology generally. In fact, there's so many that it's difficult to keep up!

Personally, I never look at Twitter (unless linked to by the aforementioned sources) as I find it too shallow for most purposes.