apt-cache search docx returns antiword - Converts MS Word files to text, PS, PDF and XML okular-backend-odt - Okular backend for ODT documents docx2txt - Convert Microsoft OOXML files to plain text pandoc - general markup converter tea - graphical text editor with syntax highlighting Look at the descriptions to see if any might be useful. -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA