Are there any programs that will convert Word DOC files to RTF
files?

thanks

AC

Alan <not@real.ok> wrote in news:mesnews.844d7d39.b0aecb52.0.1672
@real.ok:

If you mean in batches, I'm not aware of one (although I'm sure there
are some out there). If you mean a few individual documents, you can
open the .DOC file in Wordpad, and then save it as RTF.

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:21:52 -0400, Alan <not@real.ok> wrote:

program I found for making batch conversions of MS doc to rtf was
CZ Document Converter. Unfortunately it is NOT freeware (


Fanman Uk.

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"dkg_ctc" wrote :


I was hoping to do it in batches, but the Wordpad way works fine.
Thats the way I've been doing it up to now.

Alan

Alan wrote:

I take it that you do not have Word?
Because Word lets you do it with a Wizard Batch conversion.

--
Regards,
Sietse Fliege

"Sietse Fliege" wrote :


Nope, no Word.


Alan

Paul@fanman.commark.freeserve.co.uk (Fanman Uk) wrote in
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of OpenOffice have the ability to create macros. Could a macro possibly
be written within OpenOffice to help with this conversion?

--
Frank Hahn

I recently found out about AutoIt ( http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/ ) via
this NG,
and am enjoying finding out its many useful capabilities. I think it very
likely that you
could use it to build a Word to RTF converter, by automating the process of
opening your doc(s) in WordPad and saving into RTF.
I will have a go at this myself; if successful I will post the script that I
come up with.

HTH,
Adrian Carter

"Alan" <not@real.ok> wrote in message
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An AutoIt script to convert Word to RTF in batches was not so hard.
Here it is, hope it helps.

Adrian

; ==============================================
; AutoIt script to convert Microsoft Word documents to
; rich text format using WordPad. Each RTF file is stored
; in the same directory as its originating MS Word document,
; and has the same file name with a RTF extension.
; The list of Word document names is acquired from the
; clipboard - preferably fully qualified.
; In the interests of brevity for posting to the NG, this
; script performs no error checking - eg. if RTF file
; already exists. It also assumes that Word documents have
; a file extension of ".DOC". Anyone wishing to make serious
; use of this script is advised to add some minimal error
; processing.
;
; I have carried out a reasonable level of testing but
; cannot be held responsible for any adverse consequences
; arising from use of this script. Use at your own risk.
;
; Oh yes, one more caveat. I built and tested this under
; Windows 2000 Professional. I am unable to say how or
; whether it will perform under other flavours of Windows.
;
; Adrian Carter
; Sept 18, 2003

; ==============================================
; Look for window title text anywhere in string
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
; Capture list of Word doc names from clipboard;
SetEnv,TheDocs,%Clipboard%
; Start WordPad & wait for it to start
Run, "C:\\Program Files\\Windows NT\\Accessories\\WordPad.exe"
WinWaitActive, - WordPad

Start:
; Extract next Word document
StringLen, L, TheDocs
IfEqual, L, 0, GoTo, ExitPoint
StringGetPos, P, TheDocs,\n
IfEqual, ErrorLevel, 1, GoTo, LastOne
SetEnv, RemLen, %L%
EnvSub, RemLen, 1
EnvSub, RemLen, %P%
EnvSub, P, 1
StringLeft, NextDoc, TheDocs, %P%
StringRight, Remainder, TheDocs, %RemLen%
StringReplace, NextRTF, NextDoc,.doc,.rtf
SetEnv, TheDocs, %Remainder%

; Up to here, we were just building filenames.
; Now we get WordPad to open the doc and save the rtf
GoSub, Convert
GoTo, Start

LastOne:
; Set doc & rtf names
SetEnv, NextDoc, %TheDocs%
StringReplace, NextRTF, NextDoc,.doc,.rtf

; Execute conversion
GoSub, Convert
GoTo, ExitPoint

Convert:
; Shortcut to File|Open
Send,^o
; Type name of Word doc
Send,%NextDoc%
; Press ENTER key
Send,{ENTER}
; Shortcut to File|SaveAs
Send,!fa
; Type name of RTF file
Send,%NextRTF%
; Press ENTER key
Send,{ENTER}
Return

ExitPoint:
; Close WordPad
Send,!fx
Exit
; ==============================================

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