Alan Young has produced a excellent Visual Basic code sample, which will allow you perform a task that cannot normally be done, which is to export data from tables contained within Microsoft Word 97 documents to a range of formats including

- Microsoft Excel 97 workbook

- Comma Delimited File

- Tab Delimited Files

Alan is a full-time software systems engineer at Boeing Space Systems in Downey, CA , and formerly taught high school computer programming in Pascal, C++, Visual Basic, and Delphi for over 15 years.

Alan also has an excellent web site at:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/7705

and you can email him at

ajtech@flash.net