If you’ve ever had to convert a batch of doc (or rtf or html) files into plain old text files, you’ll know it can be a hassle.
You either have to open each one manually (which is fine if you only have a few to convert) or you end up searching the web for a tool that will convert doc to text.
These tools are around but they’re expensive. Most of the ones I found cost hundreds of dollars. Which wasn’t a figure I had planned on spending.
I thought I was going to have to resort to recording a macro in Word. Something I’d never had much success with to be honest.
Then I chanced on a neat little program that is designed purely to convert word documents to text files. That’s all it does in life. It doesn’t convert PDFs or spreadsheets or anything fancy. Just Word doc files, RTF files and HTML documents.
And it does it fast! My machine converted 149 files a minute. That’s faster than I could have done with a macro.
So if you need to convert word doc files to text files, this neat little program is a “must have”.
Any other programs ? this one requires .net which I do not have and will not install
grrrr 
Sorry – been a while since I installed & either I already had .net on my machine or I just went ahead & downloaded it from Microsoft.
There are other programs out there but they tend to be ten times the price of this one.
Trev
Hi!
just converted 724 WORD 2000 files to text files- including copying original 7 folders into temp, “just in case”, and deleting copied/pasted files in 20 minutes. The free sofware:
http://www.convert-files.com/converters/convertdoc/index.htm
( OK, that’s my usage, but it converts many formats into many)
Regards, ezra, Nahariya, Israel