Get contents of Word document

[Pradeep1210]

I was hoping not to have to use the Word control... I have to index over 50 thousand files. Thanks, though. I'll use it.

Does anyone have another way?

You would need to use either Word or some third party control capable of reading word files.

When you need to open so many files, don't open word application for each file. Do it only once. That would be quite fast. Hardly 15 minutes or so.

1. Open Word.Application only once.
2. Open word document read text and close it.
3. Repeat for all files.
4. Close the Word Application.