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From: Ed Kearns on 27 Feb 2010 14:33 in article isw-FE2C67.10103127022010@[216.168.3.50], isw at isw(a)witzend.com wrote on 2/27/10 11:10 AM: > In article <C7AA0553.29913%kearnser(a)gmail.com>, > Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have some old word files (archiving old textual material). They open fine >> in Word 2008 for the Mac. However, I'm trying to find a way that folks who >> have both Macs and Windows in our church can search across files to find >> searchstrings. BBEdit Lite works well for this. But the software my Windows >> friends would like to use this (NoteTab Lite) only works with .txt or .rtf >> files. I tried to convert them with various online DOC to TXT converters, >> and they tell me they're not DOCs. A get-info says they're Word 1.x-5.x. I >> can't get any information on this, much less do I know how to convert them >> to a TXT file. >> >> Any Suggestions? > > As you have found out, the text in the files is readable, because you > can search it with BBEdit (the rest is formatting stuff). If all you > want to do is search the text, maybe you don't need to convert them at > all. > > What happens if you just add ".txt" to the end of the file names and > then try to open them with NoteTab Lite? > > Isaac NoteTab doesn't open them. NotePad will. I can read them with a Mac, want a way for Windows folks to read them Ed
From: Warren Oates on 27 Feb 2010 14:38 In article <C7AEC18D.2CD0C%kearnser(a)gmail.com>, Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote: > NoteTab doesn't open them. NotePad will. I can read them with a Mac, want a > way for Windows folks to read them Like I said, open them and re-save as text-only. As my good friend Jollius Rogerus said, that's a good task for Automator if you don't want to sit and CMD-O all day long. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Ed Kearns on 27 Feb 2010 16:06 in article 4b8974d2$0$24279$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com, Warren Oates at warren.oates(a)gmail.com wrote on 2/27/10 12:38 PM: > In article <C7AEC18D.2CD0C%kearnser(a)gmail.com>, > Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> NoteTab doesn't open them. NotePad will. I can read them with a Mac, want a >> way for Windows folks to read them > > Like I said, open them and re-save as text-only. As my good friend > Jollius Rogerus said, that's a good task for Automator if you don't want > to sit and CMD-O all day long. I don't know enough about Automator to tell it how to do batch files. Ed
From: Warren Oates on 28 Feb 2010 07:58
In article <C7AED751.2CF6E%kearnser(a)gmail.com>, Ed Kearns <kearnser(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know enough about Automator to tell it how to do batch files. > Ed I've never used it myself, but it has a "watch me do" function which would presumably be a good starting point. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer |