Hello. I'm currently looking at re-inventing a change control system. Thus far, I've pretty much decided on a database backend, in which server configs etc. will be stored (along with logs of 'changes').
The problem I have, is that we have a lot of servers. And I'd rather not go through every build sheet, and copy all the items by hand.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to be looking to extract information (IE server config info) from a word document?
Thankfully, the content I am after is inserted into fields on a template, which _shoul_ make grabbing the info easier...
Cheers.
Ed.
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