MS Word files manipulation in ColdFusion 10/11

Question

I am working on a small project where I have to read more than 100 MS Word files and loop through each file and update their headers and footers. I want to accomplish this task in ColdFusion 10/11.

Is there any way I can get this done in ColdFusion?

Answer 1

RIA Forge has a tool called

http://docxextractor.riaforge.org/

Which pulls data from docx files. It does not create docx files however

Disclaimer: I wrote this

Answer 2

The <cfdirectory> tag can be used to work with files in a directory, for example getting a list to process using <cfloop>.

ColdFusion does have some support for MS Office files. What you're trying to do can be done for an Excel spreadsheet, reading the file with <cfspreadsheet> and then using functions such as SpreadsheetSetFooter(), before writing the file.

However, there are no comparable functions for Word files!

Adobe ColdFusion documentation