>I guess I was thinking that Word must store a table, and all of the columns and formatting associated with table, as a kind of code, and that this code might be somehow available or accessible via Word, perhaps as a series of Visual Basic command. But from what you say, apparently this is the not case.
Older word-processing programs, like WordStar and WordPerfect, basically stored the document in a single stream, similar to NotePad texts - but with formatting commands interspersed. This is comparable to modern HTML documents.
Looking at an MS-Word document with a hex editor, it seems that the text is stored continuously,
without the formatting commands (bold on, bold off, etc.) in between - these commands seem to be appended at the end of the file.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
