We are getting a shiny new Writer in FME Workbench 2018. We also need a Reader! Believe it or not, sometimes we have data in a Word document that we have to read and do something with the contents. I just spent a couple of days figuring out a workaround (great thanks to some of the forum posts that led me to a workaround in the meantime) to harvest images from Word documents and rename them using a piece of data within the Word document. It was a bit painful to say the least.

PS: You can read a .docx by extracting it first with 7-zip so I'm using the command line utility to do that via a SystemCaller transformer first, then read in the Office Open XML file.