Re: viewing docx files

[Tomas Nordin]

Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all. I'm running Gnu-Emacs (latest brew install emacs version) on MacOS 
> Sierra. I run Emacs in the terminal, and use the Emacspeak package for 
> access, since I am blind. I received an email (gnews), with an attachment, 
> two docx files for reading. I was able to download the attachments to my ~/ 

for converting docx files to text I use docx2txt, a tool made solely for
this purpose. 

> directory. I opened the file (c-x c-f then tab completion), but it

at this point (in dired with point on the docx file), I would invoke
dired-do-shell-command by hitting X or ! . By the prompt in the mini
buffer I say

    docx2txt <

and hit enter. The contents of the file as text is then available in a
new buffer "*Shell Command Output*"

This is Gnu/Linux Debian and I have got the tool via apt, I don't know
how it works on other systems. docx2txt is a command line tool and not
special to emacs.

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