In word 10, I save as and tab down to save as type and select .txt plain text. Then a conversion box comes up and I just tab to OK button and all the text is saved and no word formatting.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt I agree. I also see that we were approaching the problem from different directions. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt Oh no, you can copy the text from your word document to notepad, no problem, and won't get any formatting or other code. I mean if you open a word document in notepad, that's what you will get. The op was asking if there was any better way to convert a .docx (or .doc I suppose) file to .txt, without doing the copy operation. I'm sure there are file converters out there, but the best way would seem to be using Word itself to do this, or wordpad. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: November 23, 2017 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt Ah, I can't speak for Windows 10. With Windows 7, I've never experienced chaos with files copied to Notepad. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt Sorry, you mean notepad never worked to do this, or you never got a lot of unconverted characters? I actually tried it just now to be sure notepad in windows 10 didn't handle .doocx files any better. It will open anything you throw at it, of course, but you'll still get a bunch of gibberish. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: November 23, 2017 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt Regarding your Notepad comment, never in my experience. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 4:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt Yep, that's it. Word will save in a ton of formats, including .txt. You can also open the file in wordpad. However, notepad will not do, as you'll just get a whole lot of unconverted code characters. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: November 23, 2017 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt Not sure if there is an easier way -- maybe opening the doc in Word and using the Save-As command and saving it as a text document. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 10:54 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] word docx to notepad txt > what’s the easiest way to convert a word doc to notepad without copying > the text from the word doc then pasting it into notepad? > Email is golden!!! > Kevin Lee > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
