Converting the document to the newer format lets you use newer features, but conversion might create difficulties for people who are using earlier versions of Word to edit the document. If you convert the document, they might not be able to work with certain portions of the document that were created in the newer versions of Word.
You can either work in Compatibility Mode or you can convert your document to the Word 2016 or Word 2013 file format. The Word Convert command clears the compatibility options so that the document layout appears as it would if it had been created in Word 2016 or Word 2013.
A DOC or DOCX is a document file created in a word processor, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. A DOC file uses various bits of information from the system to create a page layout. For example, it will pull installed fonts from the system to display the text. This makes DOCs relatively small in size and easy to edit and manipulate.
I have used this activity and its is converting fine. Only issue that I observed it is that it probably depends upon the size of the file for the amount of time it take to convert it into PDF.
For 4.5 mb file it took almost 4 to 6 seconds.
The above answers all fell short for me, as I was doing a batch job converting around 70,000 word documents this way. As it turns out, doing this repeatedly eventually leads to Word crashing, presumably due to memory issues (the error was some COMException that I didn't know how to parse). So, my hack to get it to proceed was to kill and restart word every 100 docs (arbitrarily chosen number).
When you want to convert, for example a bunch of .docx files to pdf, open Adobe Acrobat Professional, click Tools from the upper right, click Action Wizard, under Actions, click "Convert all to pdf at maximum quality", choose Add files or Add folder from the drop down menu located immediately under "Files to be processed:", browse and select the folder that contain .docx or other files formats, click OK, click Start.
3. Once you have all the files listed that you want to convert, click OK. A new window called Output Options will open. In this window, select your preferred settings. For me, I want all the new PDFs to have the same filename and be in the same folder as the Word docs, so I choose these settings:
I have the same problem and have tried to batch convert multiple word documents to pdfs, unsuccessfully. I have around 300+ word documents which need to be converted to pdf's and cannot imagine opening each one and saving as pdf.
I used the Action Wizard to create an action to do so, it gives an error "An unexpected error occurred. PDFMaker was unable to produce the Adobe PDF. Whenever I try to select multiple word files into pdf's by selecting those manually, it throws the same error.
I do not want to connect the document so that you can use Word to edit or display the document (which apparently is the function of that "Office connector" app). I just want to convert the Word document to a clean, normal Confluence page.
I tried to convert it using many different ways (save as PDF, export to PDF, Print to PDF (Microsoft, Adobe, CutePDF), Adobe Acrobat (paid) Create PDF / Convert PDF (via plugin and application), various converter tools (PDFgear, pdfcreator, CutePDF, LibreOffice, other Word version).
Export the original text to PDF (from your IDE or whatever you have it in). Then convert the PDF to SVG (try both with text to path or preserve text as text) and insert the SVG. This way you have a vectorized image rather than a bitmap, which will preserve the quality (and reduce the file size).
Enketo allows PDF exports but they aren't always the best for these purposes. If I was to give any feedback it would be to decide on what the purpose of the word exports is. If it is for someone who will review the content of the form then maybe it works well as it is.
To answer your question, looking at the flow I have a managed folder called 'Word' which contains a word document, a recipe (where this code is) and then an (CSV) export file which I called 'Word_docs'
My hope was to be able to drop word docs into the folder, run the recipe and an output file is created. This file will be a frequency table containing all the text from the word document. I have a notebook with code for word clouds, sentiment etc already which would reference this 'Word_docs' file.
I am a final year graduate student and I have my thesis (about 350 pages) in Microsoft Word format. I would like to convert the document into a LaTeX "camera" ready PDF. Is there any easy way to do this?I am very new to LateX..
New version of writer2latex is pretty good. It works with the Open Office, but I think their command line utility should work without the OO. You can set quality of the converted document - from LaTeX as clean as possible, to version which tries to emulate appearance of source word document.
The free open source word processor AbiWord has an MS Word import function, and, if you install it (be sure to check it under install time, or if on Linux, install the necessary plugin package), a LaTeX export function. It works decently well for simple documents.
I am somewhat late to the party, as the question's author has, hopefully, graduated. But, for the sake of completeness of answers, I'd like to mention a universal (and now very popular) format converter pandoc ( ), which is open source and supports an extremely wide variety of document formats, including presentation slides and e-books.
You can't convert MS Word document to LaTeX directly. The two formats are rather incompatible. Last time I had to do it (a 4-page paper written by my Prof) I saved it as text-only and readded all formatting, math, images and tables manually. As you can guess it was quite an effort which is not doable for a 350 pages document, except in the unlikely case that it would really be all text with minimal formatting (some arts thesis maybe?).
Latex is a type setting language, and through programs such as pdflatex, you can turn this into a pdf file. It is certainly not the only way to create a pdf file. If creating a pdf from your word file is your ultimate goal, then there are much more sensible ways to do this.
If you have completed all the 350 pages in word (man, that should have taken long!), then I'd recommend using one of the paid services available and just get it converted. You could try maybe Word to Latex, Word LaTeX or something similar although I agree it is hard to find one!
word2tex seems like a pretty decent commercial option. Unfortunately, it only runs on Windows OS. It provides a "save as tex" option in the "Save As" dialog box. It also has dialog box that allows a wide range of configuration options.
There is It is a result of the Bachelor thesis "Word-to-LaTeX convertor by Michal Kebrt. I was one of the early testers and it produced really good results. The free version of 1.2 from 2007 is still floating around the net: -freebies.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=14932
I've got a client that is looking to create template for their company's knowledge articles. They are hoping to create the template in Word and then convert it to clean HTML for use in ServiceNow. I know this is functionality that Word, and SN have built in...but we're seeing some lousy conversions. Anyone have any experience with this? thanks!
If that's a no go, you can convert the Word file with pandoc, I've been using it in my spare time. It's pretty neat, but might be too technical for your use. In anycase, here's the "Getting Started" page.
thanks Jacebenson, I appreciate the response. I'll check out pandoc. The issue we're seeing with the SN's built in HTML converter, as well as Word's, is some varying reliability of the resulting code. Have you experienced that?
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To clean up your HTML you can use the HTML Cleanup options. You can also add, find, and replace commands to change your code; or find and delete commands to delete code you do not need. Once all cleanup options are selected click the green Clean Up My HTML button. Then you can copy the converted HTML to the clipboard or save it and download it as HTML.
If you reference any of these files elsewhere (a website, email etc.) then delete only HTML files. Please note that you can also download all converted document media files or any custom images that you have uploaded before you delete them.
You can batch convert as many files as you like and because you are converting locally, it is dramatically faster. Also because the data never leaves your system it is a more secure option for confidential documents.
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I am not able to send you the Word document, for privacy concerns. I did find something interesting though. The document in question is contained in a table, in other words the entire content of the document is in a table. There are two columns in the table and in the top row the two cells are merged into one. There are also places where two columns are merged into one. I experimented with another Word document without tables and it converted to a PDF without problems.
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