Combining MSWord documents

[zchuck744]

Is here a tool that will combine 100's of Word files inputs  to one PDF file.

[Raj]

@zchuck744 

A .docx file is just a fancy zip file that word can read.

If you take the extension and convert it to .zip and then unzip the contents, you will see a series of structured xml files. When you open word and a .docx file it knows how to stitch these together.

You could look at each of the xml files and identify the one which appears to contain the actual block text (most of them are related to syling and so on), and then import this xml file into alteryx before doing some parsing.

Although there is no such tool to directly bring your word file as of now.

[zchuck744]

Is there a way to convert MS-Word files to a PDF, then input it as input records?

[flying008]

Hi, @zchuck744 

FYI.

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Public-Community-Gallery/Read-Word-Table-Macro/ta-p/951944 

then use Table and Render tools to output your result.pdf file.