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Re: Help! Need to reformat over 1000 *plain text* Word docs quickly
Subject:Re: Help! Need to reformat over 1000 *plain text* Word docs quickly From:Sheila Carlisle <scarlisle -at- axialinfo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:43:57 -0800
A great tool I've used many times for converting Word or other files is
Logictran, at http://www.logictran.com
If there are any patterns you can determine in the Word docs (e.g. based
on styles, content, or position of data in the file) then you might be
able to do a programmatic conversion to XML, rearranging the content at
the same time as you convert it.
Another lighter-weight but extremely useful tool is Search&Replace at
http://www.funduc.com
With any programmatic conversion you'll probably end up creating a
many-pass process to get from A to B, though.
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