How to Convert an MS Word Doc to Plain Text

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Tip 1 - How to convert Word Document files into plain-text files | Warren M Tang on WordPress.com

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Yasmeen Hassan | permalink

In order to use the contents of a Word Document (".doc" or ".docx" extension) in a concordancer it must be converted or saved as a plain text file (".txt" extension). I will outline two different ways you can do this below. Method 1 (recommended) open the document in Word, do a "select all" (ctrl+A), "copy"…

For further reading: http://wmtang.org/2008/01/11/how-to-convert-word-document-files-into-plain-text-files/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Step 1: Save Your MS Word Resume as Plain Text - Free Resume Samples, Cover Letter Samples and Tips

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by William Kaufman | permalink

« Back to: How to Post Your Resume Online Here's how to convert to Plain Text: MS Word 2007 Open the MS Word document that contains your resume. Clic

For further reading: http://susanireland.com/resume/online/post/save-as-plain-text/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - Convert documents to TXT

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Robert Helbig | permalink

This free online media converter lets you convert your documents and ebooks to the TXT format, including OCR. Fast and high quality conversion.
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For further reading: http://document.online-convert.com/convert-to-txt ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to extract plain text from MS word document file in pure C++?

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Scrod 08142011 | permalink

Is there any pure C++ library to extract plain text from a .doc file? I'm developing a C++ program to read .doc and .pdf files. I have to extract plain text from the file and write it into a .txt...

For further reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8252220/how-to-extract-plain-text-from-ms-word-document-file-in-pure-c ^[4]

Tip 5 - How to Change a Word File to a Comma Delimited File

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Barak Sekeles | permalink

You can use Microsoft Word to create a business document that contains hundreds of values separated by commas. For example, you can save all your business contacts in this format to create a ...

For further reading: http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/change-word-file-comma-delimited-file-7048.html ^[5]