Attachments in Office Documents. How Do I know who have?

[jpinto1167]

I need to examine a group of .doc and .rtf files to see if they contains attachments inside them (other office documents). Also then I need to determine if those documents have attachments. Any idea how could I accomplish this?

Thank you

 

[macropod]

Hi jpinto1167,

If a Word file has an external link to another file, the link will be in one of the following fields:
RD
LINK
INCLUDE *
INCLUDEPICTURE
INCLUDETEXT
IMPORT *
HYPERLINK
* These are mentioned only for backwards compatability - they have been superceded by other fields in the list.

Other embedded objects (eg Excel workbooks) will be contained in an EMBED field.

You can test for any/all of these without opening the document in Word, by using a script that reads the file in text form. Note, though, that you'll likely also pick up HYPERLINK fields that only act internally to the document and that some of the field names might be used in contexts other than for fields.

Cheers