Why convert DOC to TXT?
DOC is Microsoft Word's legacy binary format carrying formatting, styles, tables and optionally macros. Plain text is the most portable format for raw content - it opens in every editor, is accepted by scripts and databases, and carries no macros or embedded objects. The typical uses are stripping a document for further processing or importing text into a CMS or database.
How to convert DOC to TXT
Microsoft Word APP
Open the .doc file, go to File > Save As, and select Plain Text (*.txt). In the conversion dialog choose UTF-8 encoding to preserve non-ASCII characters, then click OK.
OpenOffice.org Writer FREE
Open the .doc in Writer, go to File > Save As, choose Text (.txt), select UTF-8 in the filter options dialog, and click OK.
AbiWord FREE
Open the .doc in AbiWord and use File > Save As, selecting Plain Text as the format.
Programs that convert DOC
About these formats
.DOC
Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document
A DOC file is a Microsoft Word document saved in the old 1997-2003 binary format. You can open it for free with LibreOffice Writer, Google Docs, or Word for the web - no Microsoft Office…
Open .DOC details →
.TXT
Plain Text File
A TXT file is plain, unformatted text - the simplest document format on any computer. Double-click it: Windows opens it in Notepad, macOS in TextEdit, Linux in gedit. Nothing to install. If…
Open .TXT details →Quality & what to watch
- All formatting is lost - bold, italic, tables, headers, footers and styles do not exist in plain text.
- Embedded images are dropped entirely; they produce no placeholder in the
.txtoutput. - Choose UTF-8 encoding when saving to preserve accented letters and non-Latin characters.
