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>>>>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>:

> I've now asked around, it seems things are not as easy as I thought.
> If we discount the giant stuff such as StarOffice (and, of course, The
> Real Thing on Windows-running Emacsen), a useful default can be
> constructed.  There is an `mswordview' that can grok *some* of the
> Word formats (only Word 97, I'm told.)  

Here's what I've saved up links for:
	<URL:http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/>
	<URL:http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html>
	<URL:http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/>

Word2x attempts to convert Word documents to either HTML, TeX or plain 
text, while preserving as much of the structure as possible.  Seems to 
support at least Word 6 and 7.  MSWordView does indeed support only
Word 8 (Office97) and has HTML as its only output.

catdoc is simpler, and aims at just preserving the text from the Word
document.