Converting multiple MS word documents to (comma-separated) text files

Posted by Anonymous March 10, 2010 - 8:28pm

Hi all,

First I am going to lay out what I would like to achieve. Basically, there are multiple MS Word forms (with drop down manuals, and text fields) which I want ultimately generate an Excel table with each user input (drop down manuals and text fields) to occupy an independent column in Excel.

What I need to go through is to save each complete form in two formats (1: as typical Word document type (.doc) and 2: as comma-separated plain text type (.txt)). It's required to save as .txt because when Excel opening this .txt, I can specify it is comma-separated and each field will become a new column.

It becomes quite a hassle to have to save the forms twice. So I wonder if there is any way I can massively convert multiple MS Word documents into specifically comma-separated txt files.

Thank you,
Amit