Chuck, there are several such utilities. I annot remember the name because I am at work, just it escapes my mind. Go to freshmeat.net and search either for "word" or "ms-word", that is how I found these programs. Best, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:32 AM Subject: converting files to text | I recently discovered the utility "ps2ascii" which extracts text from | postscript files and also from pdf files. Now what I wish I could discover | is a similar utility to deal with MS Word files. I am curious to know what | some of you "Linux Only" users do when you get files attached as MSWord | documents? | Chuck | | | My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh | "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear." | | | _______________________________________________ | Speakup mailing list | Speakup at braille.uwo.ca | http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup