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>I've got a whole bunch of Word docs spread over our
>network and I'm trying to get some info on them without
>having to open them all one by one. I know they all have
>titles and subtitles defined in Word's standard
>properties,and have release dates, doc numbers etc
>stored as custom properties.
There are a number of commandline utilities that
may or may not prove useful here:
They have lots of features for extracting text
and other information from Word documents.
I *know* that I've used one of these before to get
the metadata from Word documents in a script.
I can't for the life of me remember which one,
though :(
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