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Add a quick guide to using the text extractor and friends, since that's a common use

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</menu>
<menu label="HWPF">
<menu-item label="Overview" href="index.html"/>
<menu-item label="Quick Guide" href="quick-guide.html"/>
<menu-item label="HWPF Format" href="docoverview.html"/>
<menu-item label="HWPF Project plan" href="projectplan.html"/>
</menu>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Copyright (C) 2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. -->
<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.1//EN" "../dtd/document-v11.dtd">
<document>
<header>
<title>POI-HWPF - A Quick Guide</title>
<subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
<authors>
<person name="Nick Burch" email="nick at torchbox dot com"/>
</authors>
</header>
<body>
<section><title>Basic Text Extraction</title>
<p>For basic text extraction, make use of
<code>org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor</code>. It accepts an input
stream or a <code>HWPFDocument</code>. The <code>getText()</code>
method can be used to
get the text from all the paragraphs, or <code>getParagraphText()</code>
can be used to fetch the text from each paragraph in turn. The other
option is <code>getTextFromPieces()</code>, which is very fast, but
tends to return things that aren't text from the page. YMMV.
</p>
</section>
<section><title>Specific Text Extraction</title>
<p>To get specific bits of text, first create a
<code>org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument</code>. Fetch the range
with <code>getRange()</code>, then get paragraphs from that. You
can then get text and other properties.
</p>
</section>
<section><title>Changing Text</title>
<p>It is possible to change the text via
<code>insertBefore()</code> and <code>insertAfter()</code>
on a <code>Range</code> object (either a <code>Range</code>,
<code>Paragraph</code> or <code>CharacterRun</code>).
It is also possible to delete a <code>Range</code>, but this
code is know to have bugs in it.
</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>