Is it possible to automate word documents into After Effects?

Late to the party, you probably already solved this issue, but here's a potential solution.

If your team is open to using a form-based tool like Airtable, Google Forms, or a Web App to render videos, you could potentially use Plainly (plainlyvideos.com) to set this up.

The issue around multi-style still remains, but we could probably work with you on creating an expression that would cover this.

How many different videos and how many types of disclaimers do you have in mind? Also, would the team be comfortable filling in a 'Google Form' of sorts, as opposed to a doc or excel sheet? If so, we've created an online platform that links to an AE project, with the ability for the user to update text, images, vids, audio, etc. through the platform. This will then ping a virtual version of after effects and your videos would be updated and rendered..

Not sure if it is exactly what you're after, but if you'd like to have a more detailed chat about it then it may be a solution.

With regards to .CSV, as mentioned by Mylenium and Shivering Cactus, you would need some nifty scripts available to be able to sort out bold text, layouts, etc.... In fact we've ended up writing quite a few scripts to automate and link the things we've managed to do on our platform.

Having said all of the above, this is all for AE and not Premiere, so you would either have to be willing to set up a dynamic link, set up an MOGRT file, or else export each video from Premiere and have it imported into a pre-set AE template, where the disclaimer text box is pre-set and updated automatically.

A lot of prep-work, but that's why I asked how many vids or for how long this set up will be used, as it might be worth going through the hassle once to automate and set up, either with our platform or even with CSVs, etc...

If you'd like to discuss further let me know and we'll take it from there

If you know which words needed to be bold, you could include in the CSV these as separate values and create an expression to "fake bold" these words using text animators.

The trouble with importing text via CSV is that the "C" stands for "comma", so any commas in the text will be treated by AE as a new cell in the table.  So you'd have to santise your data before pulling it into AE.

I wonder if a simpler approach would be to use PowerPoint to display the text, where you can bold it, send for approval etc... then once signed off, you can save the slides as JPGs, which could exist in the project already.  That way on rendering the language is signed off, correct and your workflow slightly improved.

This is strictly based on "hard" data, i.e. files or inserting actual data and there's no way to exchange this info otherwise. There are too many limitations on both ends to carry over formatting and update files. If at all I would imagine you could perhaps establish some connection to the web version of Office 365 or Google Docs and fetch the documents via their APIs through a complex AE script, but outside that it's probably hopeless. End even if retrieving the text string works, getting the custom formatting for bold, italic and colors in would be another exercise. So the answer is 95% no. That said, another option is staring you right in the face and it's called InDesign. Why not have them import their docs in ID, format it accordingly and just spool out a PDF to then import in AE? Takes care of everything and surely would not be too much too ask.

Mylenium