Managing Text Files

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Dale

Transcriptionists create patient reports on Word through
Dictaphone's Enterprise Express. Each patient has a
separate Word file. We need to create a third party
billing statement from those files that contain specific
line items from each of the Word documents: name, date,
type of service provided. Is there anyway to set it up so
those items are easily available from the multiple
separate files so we don't have to read each file, type
the information onto a newly created summary list, etc.?
Thanks for any input.
Dale
 
Dale
I don't have an answer for you, but you might want to repost providing a little more information about how the information you want to extract is situated within each individual file
Examples
Is the data table cell
Is the data in form field

If the there is some kind of consistent format from file to file, someone might be able to help you with some code that would help you out

This won't help now, but for the future you might consider collecting all the data you may need to use again either in a database or on an Excel spreadsheet. Or, if you don't have Excel, a separate Word file could be used to store all the information in a table
Again, none of these options will get you out of rekeying the data as it exists now, but they would help youfor the future

tj
 
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