You might want to check out Syncfusion's DocIO offering. I haven't used it, but their samples ship with one showing the conversion of a Word doc to a text doc.
Sean -- quoted text -- I'm trying to read a Word document as text data and I cannot find an easy way to handle this in .Net 2003. If there is some way to convert it to a text file, then just open and process the text file, that would work much better than having to deal with the Word document. All that is required is that I can read the data into a string as text data. I do not care about any of the formatting or styles... just the text. What I am doing is mining some data out of a Word document. The Word document is a form that someone created, so I can depend on the text data and I am able to parse the text to capture the data that I need. It works fine in a text file, but I cannot get to the text data within Word. I've built Word documents from within .Net and saved them, but I do not recall ever opening a word document and pulling the text out. So this is new to me. I think my problem is that when I do a search for this on Google, MSDN, etc. That there are just too many Word/.Net matches and I am not able to find what I need. If anyone has any ideas on how to find what I am looking for, I am open to ideas. Any ideas, suggestions, or sample code would be very much appreciated. Thanks, jrothlander ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
