title: Remote control or script Open Office to edit Word document from Python
body: <p>I want to (preferably on Windows) start Open Office on a particular document, search for a fixed string and replace it with another string selected by my program.</p>
  
  <p>How do I do that, from an external Python program?  OLE-something?  The native Python scripting solution?</p>
  
  <p><sup>(The document is in the Word 97-2003 format, but that is probably not relevant?)</sup></p>