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> does anyone know is there is an emacs mode to read MS word documents
> (sent by colleagues), as ASCII. I'm thinking of something along the
> lines of antiword, which produces text from MS Word (and even keeps
> tables and so on).

Just a small note and self-advertisement: filesets.el uses antiword for 
displaying (nothing more) "*.doc" files in an emacs buffer. Having it 
properly configured and having antiword or a similar program installed, 
the command "filesets-find-or-display-file" would do the job.

Cheers,
Thomas.