parsing a table in MS Word

[jmedidi]

How complicated is parsing a table in MS word within Alteryx workflow ?

[Jean-Balteryx]

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.

[Maskell_Rascal]

Hi @jmedidi,

Here is a thread that addresses this using the Python tool. This post spans over a couple years, so you'll want to jump to the end to find some updates on the macros that were provided in the initial write up. 

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/How-to-use-R-and-Python-to-Parse-Word-...

Cheers!

Phil