Why We Convert Word to Text?
Text is a format usually contains plain text or with minimum formatting. We can get benefits from Word to Text conversion:
- Much smaller file size to save disk space
- Compatible with almost all applications
- Without or with minimum formatting and/or unusual characters
How to Convert Word to Text?
Spire.Doc is a MS Word component which enables user to perform a wide range of Word document processing tasks directly, such as generate, read, write and modify Word document for .NET and Silverlight. It supports converting files from Word Doc to Text, HTML, PDF, XML, RTF, Docx, Dot, etc.
Download Spire.Doc (or Spire.Office) with .NET Framework 2.0 (or above) together and follow the simple code below to convert Word to Text.
Step 1: Create a project in Visual Studio. Add Spire.Doc DLL as reference.
Step 2: Use the following code to load local Word docfile which you want to convert to Txt file.
Document document = new Document();
document.LoadFromFile(@"D:\Work\Stephen\2011.12.05\Sample.doc");
Step 3: Save the word doc file as HTML by using the code below:
document.SaveToFile("Sample.txt", FileFormat.Txt);
Step 4: Write the following full code into your project and press F5 to start it. Then, a Txt file will be automatically generated.
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Spire.Doc;
using Spire.Doc.Documents;
namespace tohtml_3
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Create word document
Document document = new Document();
document.LoadFromFile(@"D:\Work\Stephen\2011.12.05\Sample.doc");
//Save doc file.
document.SaveToFile("Sample.txt", FileFormat.Txt);
//Launching the MS Word file.
WordDocViewer("Sample.txt");
}
private void WordDocViewer(string fileName)
{
try
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName);
}
catch { }
}
}
}
Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports Spire.Doc
Imports Spire.Doc.Documents
Namespace tohtml_3
Partial Public Class Form1
Inherits Form
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
'Create word document
Dim document As New Document()
document.LoadFromFile("D:\Work\Stephen\2011.12.05\Sample.doc")
'Save doc file.
document.SaveToFile("Sample.txt", FileFormat.Txt)
'Launching the MS Word file.
WordDocViewer("Sample.txt")
End Sub
Private Sub WordDocViewer(ByVal fileName As String)
Try
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName)
Catch
End Try
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
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