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    • Trish White
      Trish White last edited by

      How do I convert a word doc to plain text using notepad++?
      When I was using notepad, I just copied my word document and pasted it into notepad and then copied it from notepad and it worked.
      However when I did this with notepad++, all the formatting in word was carried across, is there something else I need to do?
      Thank you.

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      • Claudia Frank
        Claudia Frank @Trish White last edited by

        @Trish-White

        does this mean that, if you copy the content from word to notepad++ everything looks as it
        should be, then you start modifying text and afterwards when copying from notepad++ to word
        the indentation is messed up?

        If so, I assume that notepad++ has set tab should be replaced by spaces.
        See settings->preferences

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Trish White
          Trish White @Claudia Frank last edited by

          @Claudia-Frank
          Hi Claudia,

          Appreciate your reply. No I didn’t edit the content, all I want to do is convert the content to plain text.

          This is what I was trying to do…
          I am using a “text to speech” software which states that my article has to be in “plain text”.

          Initially, I tried using “notepad” to convert my article from a word doc to plain text. However, it still had hidden code (although I can’t see it), so I was told I should use “notepad++” to convert my word doc to plain text.

          After installing notepad++
          I clicked on File, New.
          Then I copied and pasted my word doc article into notepad++

          The article in notepad++ still had the word doc formatting (i.e. it didn’t convert it to plain text).

          If there something else I need to do with the notepad++ settings or preferences etc. so my article is converted to plain text?

          Thank you

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          • Claudia Frank
            Claudia Frank @Trish White last edited by

            @Trish-White
            Hi Trish,

            what makes you think that it isn’t converted?
            I do not have MS Word, although I strongly believe it should behave like LibreOffice,
            but I gave it a try with LibreOffice and if I do

            • ctrl+a (select all)
            • ctrl+c (copy) and
            • ctrl+v paste

            it seems to work.

            Can you post your notepad++ debug-info, available under ? menu and a exact description
            how you copy and paste your text, like if using shortcut or menu entry and what the result
            is vs. what is expected. Maybe there is just a simple misunderstanding.

            Cheers
            Claudia

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            • Mikhail V
              Mikhail V @Trish White last edited by

              @Trish-White

              Hi. In Notepad++ I very much doubt you still have any Word doc formatting or
              hidden code. I suppose your software does not understand unicode symbols and
              assumes the text must be Plain ASCII characters.
              Try doing this: in Notepad++ click “encoding” menu item, then click “convert to ansi”.
              Where does the software takes text from? Clipboard or a txt file?

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              • Trish White
                Trish White @Claudia Frank last edited by

                @Claudia-Frank
                Hi Claudia,

                I’ve tried ctrl+ c and ctrl+v and also using the right click function on the mouse.

                The plain text that I copied from notepad++ to my “text to speech” software still had “bold, italic” etc. hence I concluded that plain text was not copied across.

                However, when I have tried Mikhail’s suggestion, the problem was fixed.

                Anyway, I do appreciate your help.

                Regards
                Trish

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                • Trish White
                  Trish White @Mikhail V last edited by

                  Hi Mikhail,

                  The “text to speech” software can take text from either a text file or clipboard.

                  I’ve tried your suggestion in notepad++ (“encoding” and “convert to ansi”) and it worked. Don’t know much about the technical side but as long as it works, that’s great!

                  Thanks for your help.

                  Regards,
                  Trish

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