Getting data into Excel worksheet from Word Documents??

Hi

Can someone help me (again) with a bit of vba coding? In need to write a code that looks into the cells in column C (containing paths for doc files on my computer) opens the *.doc file, finds the first line beginning with u* and copies/selcts whatever it finds of numbers [0-9] and of the characters [-] and [.] ending at the next ^p (paragraph break) What I'm looking for is a ref-number alway following a keyword staring with a u* in one of the first lines of the documents (not always the same line though). The ref-number always takes the form "[0-9]*\-[0-9]*\-[0-9]*\.[0-9]*"

This selection should then be copied to the cell i column A on the same row.

No changes should be made to the doc files....

thanks.

This is how far I got on my own, going through the Internet, and trying all sorts of things. For the record I'm still only trying to learn writing in vba.
This one opens and closes the documents referred to in my worksheet, but I still can't find the right code to find at copy the specific content. Guess I need to use some reg ex code

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And maybe I also need to add some line in the code, to make sure I don't mess up the doc files, some "read only/do not change"-limitation

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Finally...

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