> Have anyone done validatoin of word file differently or is it possible to do it effectively thro' perl?

I validate text files (no word files, just plain ascii) with Perl. Perl is very good at this. For catching parenthesis I wrote my own function, I do not know of any module that does this. You have to work around a few problems like not closed open parenthesis or else like this, but in general you can relative easily catch the parenthesis with regular expressions.