Selecting and importing text from Word

[mikefoo]

Hi..

I am interested in importing text from Microsoft Word into labview.

The text will be identified by a particular 'style'. I have seen examples of reading text marked by 'bookmarks' however this doesn't appear to be sufficient or flexible enough for this application.

I have tried adapting the 'bookmark' code (using different property/invoke nodes) but can't seem to find something that works in a similar way.

Just wondering if anyone has already tried something similar.

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Mike

(Labview 8.2.1 + Report Generation Toolkits)

[MarkBlack]

mikefoo,

Can you tell us the particular example you are using?  I have been unable to find it based upon the information you have provided.

[mikefoo]

Hi Mark..

I have linked the example below..

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/2214

Mike

[MarkBlack]

mikefoo,

Thanks for posting the example.  Now that I have a better understanding of what example you have looked at could you please expand upon what you mean by style?  It sounds like you are trying to write a pattern recognition program, which can be very challenging. 

[mikefoo]

Hi Mark,

The plan was to be able to sift through text in a Word document for blocks of text that match a particular 'style' (determined by us) and import the text into Labview to populate VI descriptions/free labels etc.

I have adapted some code I have found to be able to cycle through table rows/columns and be able to match text/string patterns, however matching the 'style' property should make this operation a little cleaner or perhaps give us more control over what strings are matched.

Mike

[MarkBlack]

mikefoo,

Have you done any research into text pattern recognition to give you some algorithms to start with?  The only pattern recognition VIs in LabVIEW are for images and motion.