Loading Text Externally

Good Afternoon Everyone. BTW this site is excellent i am finding it very useful indeed.

I am creating a simple website in Flash MX for a small company. Now, in one of my pages i want to load text for an external document. Now i have read the tutorial on this site regarding this but it only tells you about .txt files.

The problem i have with that is there will be no formatting in the .txt file. The files i want to load externally into text boxes are .doc or htm files because these are not only formatted correctly but the information is already present and will save me alot of work, if i can get them to load externally into the text boxes.

is this something that anybody knows how to do?

thanks in advanced

chris