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Parsing a Table in MS Word

jmedidi
8 - Asteroid

How complicated is parsing a table in MS Word within Alteryx Workflow ?

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Sebastiaandb
12 - Quasar

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It's easy. Just use the table and render tool 🙂

 

jmedidi
8 - Asteroid

Thanks for the response.

 

Actually i want to read the table from Word and store the records in Database. Hope i am clear now 🙂 

Jean-Balteryx
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Hi @jmedidi ,

 

It's currently impossible to input word documents but you can use the advices from the following post to do so : https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Input-Data-from-Word-document-docx/td-...

 

About the parsing, it depends what you need to do and how is structured your file. It can be very easy as it can become more complicated and require some regex.

Sebastiaandb
12 - Quasar

Interesting! 

If you insist on working with Word files you probably end up zipping those files and looking in the .xml files within those zipped files:

 

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Input-Data-from-Word-document-docx/td-... 

Re: MS Word Automation - Alteryx Community

 

In the first link there's also someone talking about the R plugin that you might utilize to read Word files, to bad i'm not an R expert.

I hope you'll find your solution, good luck :-)!

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