One approach you can take is to a) save the Word files as text files, b) concatenate all the text files into a single file, and c) load the text files into Excel. If the data in Word is not in the same column in each file, I'd doubt if this would work for you. Can you describe in more detail how the Word files are formatted?
Saving the Word files as text files isn't an option unless there's a macro that will do that and then concantenate the files. Each document consists of several pages of Word tables with multiple columns and there may be several hundred files in the directory.
Once the files are merged and in Excel, we'll have to sort each column and manually cut out the data we don't need so that we can compare the remaining items to data in another worksheet using a compare macro.
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