I'm in need of some Word OLE mojo.
What I'm trying to do: Search through a large Word document, find a specific table(s), copy that table into an Excel file and name the Excel file appropriately.
What I can do so far: Find the appropriate table, copy, paste it into Excel.
What I need to know how to do: The name I'll assign to the Excel file depends on the line preceding the table I copied in Word. ie:

Table Name1 blah blah blah
----------------------------
| Cell11 | Cell12 | Cell13 |
| Cell21 | Cell22 | Cell23 |
| Cell31 | Cell32 | Cell33 |
----------------------------

I copy the full table into excel, and then want to extract the string "Name1" just before it so I can name my new excel file "Name1.xls".

How do I select the line just before the table I'm focused on with Perl?

Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks!

In reply to Word tables, OLE, perl, and me. by Zaphod137

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