'Microsoft Word' 'docx' files provide an 'XML' structure that is fairly straightforward to navigate, especially when it applies to 'Word' tables and comments. Tools are provided to determine table count/structure, comment count and also to extract/clean tables and comments from 'Microsoft Word' 'docx' documents. There is also nascent support for '.doc' and '.pptx' files.
copied from cf-post-staging / r-docxtractr