MS Word™ documents

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Inside a .doc or .docx file there is a lot of extra coding apart from the plain text words. For example, the name of your printer, the owner of the software, information about styles etc. For accurate results, WordSmith needs to use clean text where these have been removed.

 

converting your .DOC or .DOCX files

The easiest method, for multiple .doc or .docx files, is to convert using the Text Converter.

 

tog_minus        Alternatively you can do it in Word

 

To convert a .doc or .docx into plain text in Word  can be done thus:

Chose File | Save As | Plain text:

 

word_save_as_txt

then choose Windows (1-byte per character)

save_as_text_Word_choice_windows

or Other encoding -- Unicode (2-bytes):

save_as_text_Word_choice_Unicode

 

 

 

 

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