Re: Undoc.el: strip MS Word formatting

Re: Undoc.el: strip MS Word formatting

[Florian Weimer]

guttman@mitre.org (Joshua D. Guttman) writes:

> If so, you need undoc.el, enclosed below.  It extracts the ascii
> substrings from the word document (or presumably other formats too),
> after which it uses fill-paragraph to make things readable.  Very
> simple tables come out legible.  Graphics or elaborate tables are a
> lost cause.

Please keep in mind that the ASCII strings might include deleted text
portions.  The text you are looking at after using such a tool is not
necessarily the same a Word user sees on his screen (but it can be
*very* interesting, I have to admit).

Re: Undoc.el: strip MS Word formatting

[Karl Eichwalder]

Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:

> There's a nice challenge for someone with a large hunk of spare time.

Don't waste your time; better ask the sender to send the document again
using a sane format; for background info visit:

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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