At present, in order to get data out of a word document i have to open it with word, as in Documents.Open. Having to do this with a number of documents is quite slow. Are there more efficient ways of accessing data from within a document?

I am quite impressed with the performance of ADO with MS Access databases. Not having to open Access to run queries makes life a breeze. I know it's not the same thing but reading data from 200+ documents takes a long time

Thanks!