How to open and manipulate Word document/template in Java?

Question

I need to open a .doc/.dot/.docx/.dotx (I\'m not picky, I just want it to work) document, parse it for placeholders (or something similar), put my own data, an

Answer 1

I've been in more or less the same situation as you, I had to modify a whole bunch of MS Word merge templates at once. After having googled a lot to try to find a Java solution I finally installed Visual Studio 2010 Express which is free and did the job in C#.