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From: koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX EditoR ?
Summary: Extracting text from Word files.
Keywords: Question on editor
Message-ID: <2147@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Date: 14 Jan 90 22:38:14 GMT
References: <232@netdev.UUCP> <365@clover.warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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In article <365@clover.warwick.ac.uk>, bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) writes:
> 
> An alternative is to save the documents formatted, and to strip the
> formatting information before feeding to the screen/printer display
> programmes. I messed around with that for a while when I first installed
> Microsoft Word 3.1, ...

If you are going to mess around with ad hoc extraction processes it is easier
to start with a word processor that records its formatting information in 
clear ASCII, like XyWrite, Nota Bene, or, I think, Word Perfect.