Parsing MS Word Document?

[MrBill]

I would like to be able to open, read, and extract data from a report that
is produced in MS Word.  The doc seems to contain embedded spreadsheets.  I
would like to extract some of the data from the spreadsheets and feed it
into another application.  I've been reading a little bit about OLE and MS
Word and sure would like to find a module that hides some of this so-called
innovation from me.

Thanks,
Bill