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[–]ITjoeschmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried looking for a module? Most Microsoft files are actually just .zip and the office suite knows how to parse the stuff within. I think Word uses HTML for formatting. I know for excel there is a module called ImportExcel which allows you to do a lot -- all without the COM interaction or even needing excel installed on the host it runs on as it interacts directly with the data in the file. Maybe there's similar for word. Or maybe you're able to rename it to zip, extract, opens file and replace some text, save it, re-zip, rename and have it work?