Reading text within cells of MS Word Document

[kiwikid]

In my application I have a requirement to import a test procedure which is a MS Word document. These test procedures have step numbers, descriptions, and expected results listed within cells. During the import process I have to extract each of the fields into arrays for later use. The problem is that they're all in cells, and I can't figure out how to read directly from Word to get the individual elements. So far all I've done is convert the entire document into plain text and then parse the document looking for line breaks. In doing this I lose all of the text characteristics such as bold and different font colors that show emphasis. So, is there a way to keep that text intact as originally typed that can be parsed into seperate arrays? Thanks for the help in advance.

[big_daddy]

If you can attach an example document I will see what I can come up with for you.