-MWS- wrote:

Geez, you guys. If someone is used to authoring in Word, the LAST thing 
they want to hear is a chorus of anti-Microsoft bigots yelling "don't use 
Word" at them.

Selecting "Save As" / "Plain Text (*.txt)" and enabling the "Allow 
Character Substitution" checkbox in the conversion dialog box will do all 
of the desired "unformatting". Enabling the "Insert Line Breaks" checkbox 
will add a hard return at the end of each individual line of text, and 
selecting "Other encoding:" / "US-ASCII" will take care of any European 
special characters such as vowels with umlauts/macrons/etc.

It isn't rocket science, you know.
 

No, but this isn't a universal solution either. I'm not sure which 
version of Word you are referring to, but these options did not come up 
in Word 2000... At least, there is not a "Plain Text" save option per 
se, and the "Save as .txt with line breaks" does not give a reformatting 
option when I checked it. I'll keep looking for an option that follows 
your general instructions, however. Thanks.



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