title: How do I extract data from a doc/docx file using Python
body: <p>I know there are similar questions out there, but I couldn't find something that would answer my prayers. What I need is a way to access certain data from MS-Word files and save it in an XML file. 
  Reading up on <a href="https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx/issues/64" rel="noreferrer">python-docx</a> did not help, as it only seems to allow one to write into word documents, rather than read.
  To present my task exactly (or how i chose to approach my task): I would like to search for a key word or phrase in the document (the document contains tables) and extract text data from the table where the key word/phrase is found.
  Anybody have any ideas?</p>