"Loading Adobe/Word into Rapidminer"

You can load PDF, TXT, HTML, and XML files only. DOCX is not supported. 

Thank you, that is helpful.  Can you tell me what operators I will need to make this work?

Sure. If the files are in a directory, then use the Process Documets from Folders operator. This operator is found in the Text Processing extension available on the marketplace.

Actually reading DOCX is supported as well.  Please see this sample process.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><process version="7.4.000">
  <context>
    <input/>
    <output/>
    <macros/>
  </context>
  <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="7.4.000" expanded="true" name="Process">
    <process expanded="true">
      <operator activated="true" class="open_file" compatibility="7.4.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Open File" width="90" x="246" y="187">
        <parameter key="filename" value="C:\Users\think\Documents\MyWordDoc.docx"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="loop_zipfile_entries" compatibility="7.4.000" expanded="true" height="82" name="Read Word Document" width="90" x="581" y="187">
        <parameter key="internal_directory" value="word"/>
        <parameter key="filter" value="document\.xml"/>
        <process expanded="true">
          <operator activated="true" class="text:read_document" compatibility="7.4.001" expanded="true" height="68" name="Read Document" width="90" x="179" y="238">
            <parameter key="content_type" value="xml"/>
          </operator>
          <connect from_port="file object" to_op="Read Document" to_port="file"/>
          <connect from_op="Read Document" from_port="output" to_port="out 1"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_file object" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_in 1" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_out 1" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_out 2" spacing="0"/>
        </process>
      </operator>
      <connect from_op="Open File" from_port="file" to_op="Read Word Document" to_port="file"/>
      <connect from_op="Read Word Document" from_port="out 1" to_port="result 1"/>
      <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
    </process>
  </operator>
</process>

Huh, will you look at that. You taught me a new trick @JEdward! Thanks!

MSOffice documents are actually just zip files. 

It also works with PPTX documents too, but you need to do need to change the Loop Zip Files from my example to loop through each slide as they store them in separate XML documents. 

Have fun!