Short:    Converts Word 2,5,6,7,8 files to text, HTML or AmigaGuide. Update.
Author:   docent@union.org.pl (Peter Drapich)
Uploader: docent@union.org.pl (Peter Drapich)
Type:     text/misc
Replaces: WordConverter.lha

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.

This is the updated evaluation version 0.9.4 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 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)
 - Quite stable.


                                  History

 » version 0.9.4
   · NEW: Completely rewritten OLE wrapper. Decryption is coming!
   · NEW: Added support for WinWord 2 and Word for Mac 4 and 5 documents.
   · ADD: The name of the selected file in the filerequester is kept for the
          next filename selection - requested by several users.
   · FIX: PSGImportWord.rexx now works correctly again - thanks to Jon
          Peterson for this bug report.
   · FIX: Removed improperly used </HEAD> tag in HTML saver - thanks to
          Philip Steffan for this.
   · ADD: Arexx script PSGImportWord.rexx updated to detect if the cursor
          is in a text box - thanks to Ezequiel Partida for this one!
 » version 0.9.3
   · FIX: Fixed a serious bug, which caused crashes on pre V39 machines.
          Thanks to Yama for reporting this one.
   · FIX: Fixed a serious bug, which caused crashes while trying to convert
          non-Word documents with command line parameters. This solves all
          problems with ARexx scripts.
 » version 0.9.2
   · NEW: Added a new commandline option 'FORCE'.
   · NEW: Added PSGImportWord.rexx - Arexx script for importing texts into
          PageStream 3 documents.
   · ADD: Arexx script CEDImportWord.ced rewritten to be more safe.
   · ADD: Cleaned up error codes, returned by various functions.

 » version 0.9.1
   · FIX: A couple of fixes in docs.
   · ADD: Added a couple of new Word 6 revisions to recog function.
   · ADD: Added wordwrap option to AmigaGuide saver. This will allow reading
          converted documents without scrolling to the right in case of long
          text paragraphs.

 » version 0.9.0 First public release.
    · all older versions were internal and not publicly available.