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Need help scripting to extract Word doc text/metadata and write it to an Excel table.

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Hi,

 

My team has previously used a Google App Script to extract text and metadata (such as comments, tags, and highlighted text) from a Google Doc and display it in a Google Sheet. The script required a manual trigger and utilized a unique identifier to connect the files and operated entirely within the Google Cloud Suite.

 

We are now aiming to replicate this functionality within the Microsoft Suite, using cloud-based SharePoint for our file storage. Ideally, the script / solution would:

 

1. Find the relevant word doc (stored on sharepoint) based on some manual trigger (I manually enter in a unique ID or even the unique file name)

2. Scrape/extract each comment (containing one or more tags), author, comment-associated text, and file name data from the word doc

3. Write each comment into a row in excel (separated into columns such as "author, file name, tag 1, tag 2, tag 3, text")

4. Repeat steps 1-3 until all comments on the word doc have been extracted and written in excel

 

Has anyone here tackled a similar problem or have any resources or advice that could assist with this? Any insights or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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    Hi,
     
    if you are planning to do it via cloud flows - i don't think there is an option unless if there is any custom connector to do so.
     
    I think you can acheive same when processing the word document in local using desktop flow. Use scripting like powershell or vbscript to perform same like to get details like comments , author tags (which i feel difficult to get) 
     
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