Document manipluation: powershell - powershell

Question

I am attempting to take a large document, search for a "^m" (page break) and create a new text file for each page break I find.
Using:
$SearchText = "^m"
$word = new-object -ComObject "word.application"
$path = "C:\Users\me\Documents\Test.doc"
$doc = $word.documents.open("$path")
$doc.content.find.execute("$SearchText")
I am able to find text, but how do I save the text before the page break into a new file? In VBScript, I would just do a readline and save it to a buffer, but powershell is much different.
EDIT:
$text = $word.Selection.MoveUntil (cset:="^m")
returns an error:
Missing ')' in method call.

Answer 1

I think my solution is kinda stupid, but here is my own solution (please help me find a better one):
Param(
[string]$file
)
#$file = "C:\scripts\docSplit\test.docx"
$word = New-Object -ComObject "word.application"
$doc=$word.documents.open($file)
$txtPageBreak = "<!--PAGE BREAK--!>"
$fileInfo = Get-ChildItem $file
$folder = $fileInfo.directoryName
$fileName = $fileInfo.name
$newFileName = $fileName.replace(".", "")
#$findtext = "^m"
#$replaceText = $txtPageBreak
function Replace-Word ([string]$Document,[string]$FindText,[string]$ReplaceText) {
#Variables used to Match And Replace
$ReplaceAll = 2
$FindContinue = 1
$MatchCase = $False
$MatchWholeWord = $True
$MatchWildcards = $False
$MatchSoundsLike = $False
$MatchAllWordForms = $False
$Forward = $True
$Wrap = $FindContinue
$Format = $False
$Selection = $Word.Selection
$Selection.Find.Execute(
$FindText,
$MatchCase,
$MatchWholeWord,
$MatchWildcards,
$MatchSoundsLike,
$MatchAllWordForms,
$Forward,
$Wrap,
$Format,
$ReplaceText,
$ReplaceAll
)
$newFileName = "$folder\$newFileName.txt"
$Doc.saveAs([ref]"$newFileName",[ref]2)
$doc.close()
}
Replace-Word($file, "^m", $txtPageBreak)
$word.quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($word)
Remove-Variable word
#begin txt file manipulation
#add end of file marker
$eof = "`n<!--END OF FILE!-->"
Add-Content $newfileName $eof
$masterTextFile = Get-Content $newFileName
$buffer = ""
foreach($line in $masterTextFile){
if($line.compareto($eof) -eq 0){
#end of file, save buffer to new file, be done
}
else {
$found = $line.CompareTo($txtPageBreak)
if ($found -eq 1) {
$buffer = "$buffer $line `n"
}
else {
#save the buffer to a new file (still have to write this part)
}
}
}