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From: Ed Kearns on 24 Feb 2010 00:21 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? Ed
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 24 Feb 2010 01:53 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? > > Ed Mini vMac <http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/>, the right version of Word (*cough* search online *cough*) and you'll be able to open them and copy the text into, say, an early version of BBedit Lite's document and save. Or use Word's export fuction. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: Warren Oates on 24 Feb 2010 07:29 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. If you can open them in Word 2008, can you not _Save As_ them again as "plain text"? Or do I misunderstand? -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Ed Kearns on 24 Feb 2010 10:13 in article 1jefofb.19gsn6j18sr2ktN%jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz, Jamie Kahn Genet at jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz wrote on 2/23/10 11:53 PM: > 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? >> >> Ed > > Mini vMac <http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/>, the right version of Word > (*cough* search online *cough*) and you'll be able to open them and copy > the text into, say, an early version of BBedit Lite's document and save. > Or use Word's export fuction. But does anyone know what Word 1.x-5.x means? Ed
From: Ed Kearns on 24 Feb 2010 10:14
in article 4b851bb9$0$7836$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com, Warren Oates at warren.oates(a)gmail.com wrote on 2/24/10 5:29 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. > > If you can open them in Word 2008, can you not _Save As_ them again as > "plain text"? Or do I misunderstand? It's just that I have a number, and didn't want to do them one at a time. Ed |