Hi David Thank very much for your help. I test both VBA code in word document and Ruby code. The result is very good :) I have small query. I want to read word document, convert it to plain text and display in website, then find some word follow special requirement (don't find in tables). So I have idea that I will convert word document to plain text; mark begin, end point of tables by some special symbol. It help me to recognize and don't search in table area. Your blog is very useful. I have found many information in the past. I find the code to add some characters into word document but I can't search more information in order to working with tables. Do you know about the way to recognize begin and end of tables? I want to display table with border(e.g. box border). And are you have any way to do it? Hai Anh Ps : Can I contact with you by email? David Mullet wrote: > My first thought is that you could convert your tables to tab-delimited > text prior to saving the document. This can be done by calling the > ConvertToText method on each table, passing it a value of 1 > (wdSeparateByTabs): > > Where doc is your Word document object: > > for table in doc.Content.Tables > table.ConvertToText(1) > end > > Does that help? > > David > > http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com > http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/search/label/word -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.