[Corpora-List] Tools for batch conversion Word to UTF-8.

[Josep M. Fontana]

Great. Thanks Andrew.

JM
> Hi Josep,
>
> The script itself is not particular to any version of Word (I tested it in Word2007 FWIW). The important question is whether the *version of Word you are using* is compatible with all your different docs. But fortunately, if you have an up-to-date version of Word, it will happily open docs created by that version or by any earlier versions.
>
> HOWEVER, if you have both "doc" and "docx" formats, you will need to modify the string in the macro that specifies what files you want (e.g. to "*.doc*") to catch both forms of the file extension.
>
> best
>
> Andrew.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Josep M. Fontana
> Sent: 09 February 2012 20:19
> To: Adam Radziszewski
> Cc: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Tools for batch conversion Word to UTF-8.
>
> Thanks to everybody that responded. We will certainly try all the options since none of the tools we had tried so far did an acceptable job.
>
> Adam: if you can send me the script, I'd really appreciate it. We've checked the documentation for PyUNO and it is not all that clear so your scripts might give us a good headstart.
>
> Andrew: your macro works with all versions of Word? We have documents created with different Word versions.
>
> JM
>
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