Fellow Squeakers,

This must be a difficult one ?
Opposed to previous questions put to the Squeak community/individuals, 
This one triggers very few replies. 
Having said this, I suspect a few hardcore squeakers are on holiday... 

Meanwhile, I have made some progress:

(after getting the Squeak.Net bridge basics working)

With the NET.SDK bin\TlbImp.exe, convert X:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICExx\MSWORD.OLB to MSWORD.DLL. (there are more .OLB files in that directory - for the other MS Office apss...)

copied MSWORD.DLL to my squeak dir, and then:

doc _ nil.
app _ nil.
dotNet := DotNet startNew.
dotNet Assembly loadFrom: 'Word.dll'.
app _ dotNet ApplicationClass new.

It does create a WINWORD.EXE process (according to the Windows task manager).

(it also hangs my squeak every so often - Semaphore>waitTimeoutMSecs:)

As to how to open an actual document,  extract the document properties, and convert the document to text or xml...   A few more hours needed...

Unless you have some hints for us?