>Actually, I do mean Sections in the way Word uses the term. I've managed to pull out the first paragraph of each Section, but it comes along with a hard return at the end. Is there any way to say "give me the whole paragraph except for the last word"?

It's probably easiest to bring it to VFP with the return and then strip that out from the VFP side, using LEFT() and LEN().

Tamar