Hi friends!! i am new to perl .. I have an MS Word 2003 file which contains several tables in it and I want to extract a specific table contents. For example, tables will be coming under some sections and I want to extract the contents of the table that are coming under section 6 alone and no other table contents, I want copy those contents to an new Excel sheet with formatting. 
SECTION 4
Table data
Table data
Table data 

SECTION 5
Table data
Table data
Table data 

SECTION 6
Table data # TABLE DATA TO BE EXTRACTED AND IMPORTED TO AN NEW EXCEL S
+HEET
Table data # TABLE DATA TO BE EXTRACTED AND IMPORTED TO AN NEW EXCEL S
+HEET
Table data # TABLE DATA TO BE EXTRACTED AND IMPORTED TO AN NEW EXCEL S
+HEET 

SECTION 7
Table data
Table data
Table data

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Please help me... Thanks a lot.. i have tried using OLE::pragraphs->text to extract the word SECTION6 but i didnt get any idea how to select the table under it and copy its contents into excel.. PLS help me

In reply to How can I extract a specific table and copy from MS Word to Excel in Perl? by jack10

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