Is there any Utility to Convert .docx Files to ASCII?

[Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>]

Our campus uses the latest Microsoft Office suite which produces
XL spreadsheets and Word documents with a different format. All
the file names end in x such as important-document.xlx or
someotherdoc.docx. catdoc which reads older Word documents spews
out a bunch of binary junk and XML code so it is confused.

	Does anything read these yet besides Microsoft
applications?

	As a computer user who happens to be blind, catdoc and
xlhtml were extremely useful in reading Email attachments but
more and more documents are these new X forms of the more
familiar .doc and .xl docs.

	Thanks for any ideas.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group