WordConverter

Short:        Converts Word files to text,HTML,RTF or AGuide.
Author:       docent@union.pl (Peter Drapich)
Uploader:     docent union pl (Peter Drapich)
Type:         text/misc
Replaces:     WordConverter.lha
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Word Converter is  a  useful  tool  for  everybody,  who is looking for the
possibility  to read documents, created with Word - a famous word processor
by  Microsoft,  available  on  Wintel  and  Mac  platforms.  Thanks to Word
Converter,  you are able to convert documents created with Word for Windows
version  2,, 6,  7 and 8 and Word 4, 5 for Mac to plain text, AmigaGuide or
HTML  document,  or even import them directly into PageStream 3 or CygnusEd
text editor through additional ARexx scripts.
Check  also  Word  Converter  support  pages at http://www.docent.union.pl.
Versions  for  Linux,  Digital Unix (DEC Alpha) and Windows95 are available
from this site.

This is the updated evaluation version 0.9.8 of Word Converter.

                               Key Features

 - Simple,  intuitive way of converting Word documents.
 - Converts documents, created with Word for Windows version 2, 6, 7 and 8.
 - Converts documents, created with Word 4, 5 for Mac.
 - Converts documents, created with Word for DOS (hopefully).
 - Document can be converted to ASCII text, HTML, RTF and AmigaGuide.
 - Works as a command line tool too.
 - Additional  ARexx  scripts  allow easy import of Word document directly
   into PageStream 3 or CygnusEd text editor.
 - Context help (requires Kickstart 3.0)
 - Localised.
 - Quite stable.


                                  History

 » version 0.9.8
   · ADD: Added a few Word revisions
   · NEW: Preliminary support for Word 2000
   · FIX: Changed all references to my email to the new ones.

 » version 0.9.7
   · NEW: RTF saver added.
   · NEW: Word Converter main window becomes AppWindow now.  You can drop
          Word files onto it to start conversion.
   · ADD: Improved detection routine, now all unknown revisions are reported
          as  unknown revisions of given Word document type, not as generic
          Word documents like before.
   · ADD: Added a couple of Word revisions reported by users to recog function.
   · FIX: Fixed a bug in Amiga version, which caused that all unknown Word
          revisions were reported as Word 4 for Mac.  Thanks for John Blyth
          and others for reporting this one.
   · ADD: Catalan localisation done by Llorenç Grau. Thanks!
   · ADD: Danish localisation done by Anders Drejer. Thanks!
   · ADD: Dutch localisation done by Sander ter Steege. Thanks!