An ASCII file is just a plain text file, formatting, fonts selection, and all
other attributes are ignored and what you get is plain text in 10 pitch
courier. Saving at text w/Layout would keep the general layout of the
document fairly intact, but you would still lose bold, italic and other
formatting selections.


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Kevin Backmann


"Laurie" wrote:

I've done that and then I lose some of the formatting. Is there a way to
convert to ASCII without losing the format?

I looked for the WORD FORUM but only saw on for EXCEL.

Thanks for your help

"Kevin B" wrote:

Click FILE on the menu, select SAVE AS and change the file type to Plain Text.

Next time you might want to post a Word question in the Word forum, you'll
find the response much better there too.
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Kevin Backmann


"Laurie" wrote:

I have a Rich Text Format file that I need to save as an ASCII format file.
I am using Word 2003.