Preserve word formatting while reading

[Abhishek_Sri]

Hi,
i am developing a windows service in vb.net which reads the data from the
word document and generates corresponding text files for those. I have
special codes to replace the formatting of the word document.

for eg: bold by \h\.....\n\

I am to able to format bold,Italic and underlien

Could you please suggest me how to preserve the tab spacing and alignment
and numering.
For tab spaces and alignement i have to replace it with blank characters.