[Orgmode] Re: any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an retain text structure?

[Matt Lundin]

Christian Egli <address@hidden> writes:

> Rainer Stengele <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I love to edit documents in Org.
>
> I know what you mean.
>
>> Unfortunately I have to finally deliver text in MS Word.
>
> Sometimes I find myself in that situation.
>
>> Any idea how to best export/convert my org file to Word?
>
> I've used latex export followed by latex2rtf in the past. Most things
> work reasonably well, other like toc don't seem to work. So some manual
> fidgeting is required in the end.

+1 for latex2rtf (for simple documents).

For industrial-strength conversion, I'd recommend tex4ht. It has handled
every LaTeX feature I've thrown at it (biblatex, toc, index, footnotes)
with aplomb.

http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/

You can convert tex directly to odt and then save as a doc file within
OpenOffice.

- Matt