From: Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: .doc files in emacs
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:21:58 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umz5ooa44.fsf@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3k60ssxy0.fsf@localhost.localdomain
Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> writes:
> can a microsoft .doc file be viewed/edited/converted/whatever by
> emacs? if not, how do you people handle this file?
As others on this thread have pointed out, there are various utilities
that will convert a .doc file to a text file. However, Word itself
will do that for you (File -> Save as -> Text). Such a file can of
course be edited in Emacs, and that is useful as far as it goes.
But AFAIK there is no way to edit a .doc file in Emacs in such a way
that it remains a .doc file usable in Word. I have tried it, and
often it has seemed to work for minor changes, but I gave up after
other users found that it corrupted the file in obscure ways. I dare
say that Microsoft would be horrified at the thought, but such a
routine would improve my quality of life, as I am often called on to
edit .doc files, and do not enjoy doing so in Word.
Is a Word-to-TeX conversion program conceivable?
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
||: Happiness is no more than good health and a bad memory. :||
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-16 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-15 20:31 .doc files in emacs Gary Wessle
2006-12-15 20:46 ` Leo
2006-12-16 1:02 ` Tim X
2006-12-16 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1969.1166264692.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-17 0:34 ` Tim X
2006-12-16 2:21 ` Joe Fineman [this message]
2006-12-16 2:51 ` Lennart Borgman
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