Need recommendation for download that uses MS Word feature 'Autosummarize' to summarize a database's

[socraticquest]

Are there downloadable software products allowing the MS Word feature
'Autosummarize' to summarize an entire database's contents?

Would any of this software allow 'Autosummarize' to summarize
non-Microsoft databases e.g., forums?

Thank-you

 

[John Nurick]

Hi,

Word's Autosummarize is designed to summarise extensive passages of
prose, and the whole notion of Autosummarising the entire contents of a
relational database is problematic.

In prose, there is a lot of redundancy and the various kinds of
structure in the text make it possible for the Autosummarize algorithms
to decide what can be sacrificed and what is important. In a normalised
database, redundancy is minimal and the data structure gives no clues as
to which items of data are less important than others.

If some of the data in your database consists of extensive prose
passages (e.g. the contents of memo fields), it would be possible to
export them to one or more Word documents or text files and run
Autosummarize on them. This could be done under program control by
automating Word. I've never heard of any ready-made software for doing
this; if it exists, searching at Google or http://groups.google.com
should find it.