msword converter wanted

[Erik Collin]

Hi-

I'm looking for a small shareware of freeware program that can convert
Word documents into ascii. Anyone know where I could find one of these?

My goal is to easily convert all the silly .doc files people keep
sending me into something readable.

Thanks.

[Robert Lipe]

Erik Collin <erik@remove_me_eisinc.com> writes:

>I'm looking for a small shareware of freeware program that can convert
>Word documents into ascii. Anyone know where I could find one of these?

There are a slew of converters around. I use mswordview on OpenServer.

http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html or
http://skynet.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html

word2x and laola are similar programs.

>My goal is to easily convert all the silly .doc files people keep
>sending me into something readable.

It's been my experience that no software will convert the average
Word document into something readable...

[Paul Davidson]

Erik:

> My goal is to easily convert all the silly .doc files people keep
> sending me into something readable.

Just have them save those silly .doc files as simple .txt files
before they attach them.

Or, it used to be that MSoft had a PC program for word conversion.
Seems like the one time I bought it, it cost $10. Since
that was back when b. gates thought the internet was going nowhere,
I suspect you can find the utility on their web site and download
it for no charge.

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