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Convert your document to the TXT format
Learn how to convert DOCX documents to plain text (TXT) format easily and quickly. Extract textual content for editing, scripting, or archival use without formatting.
Quick Access To 10 DOCX File Conversion Pairs
What Is This Tool?
This tool converts DOCX files, a Microsoft Word document format with complex formatting and embedded objects, into TXT files, which contain only plain, unformatted text. The conversion extracts the readable text content for use in any text editor or processing tool.
How to Use This Tool?
- Upload your DOCX document containing formatted text and embedded elements
- Choose TXT as the output file format to extract plain textual content
- Click the convert button to process the file and remove all formatting
- Download the resulting TXT file, which you can open and edit using any text editor
Key Features
- Converts DOCX documents with rich formatting into simple plain text (TXT) files
- Removes all styling, images, tables, and embedded objects, preserving only text and line breaks
- Produces universally supported TXT files compatible with any text editor or script
- Suitable for preparing text for indexing, version control, scripting, and command-line processing
Examples
- Convert a business contract DOCX to TXT for keyword scanning and storage in version control
- Extract the text body from an academic manuscript DOCX for command-line text analysis
- Create a plain-text README file from formatted documentation for easy editing and sharing
Common Use Cases
- Extracting textual content of reports or forms for processing pipelines and search indexing
- Preparing log files, configuration scripts, or source code snippets from DOCX text
- Creating simplified archival copies or previews of complex DOCX documents without formatting
Tips & Best Practices
- Ensure your DOCX file is not corrupted to avoid incomplete text extraction
- Normalize character encoding and line breaks in the resulting TXT to prevent display issues
- Use the TXT output when formatting, images, or tables are not required for your workflow
- Verify extracted text preserves the important linear content before using in automated tools
Limitations
- All rich formatting, such as fonts, styles, layout, and embedded objects, is lost during conversion
- Structural elements like tables, footnotes, and tracked changes might be omitted or flattened
- Character encoding ambiguity and differing newline conventions may cause compatibility issues
- Source DOCX corruption or unsupported features can cause extraction failure or incomplete text
Frequently Asked Questions
- Will the TXT file keep all the images and formatting from the DOCX?
- No. The TXT format only keeps plain text and line breaks; all images, styling, tables, and other embedded objects are removed.
- Why would I convert a DOCX to TXT?
- Converting to TXT produces a universally readable plain-text file suitable for editing in any text editor, scripting, indexing, and version control without formatting overhead.
- Can all textual content from the DOCX be reliably extracted?
- Most linear text and line breaks are preserved, but complex structures like tables, footnotes, and tracked changes may be lost or altered.
Key Terminology
- DOCX
- Microsoft Word's Office Open XML document format storing richly formatted content, styles, embedded resources, and metadata as a compressed archive of XML files.
- TXT
- Plain text file format containing only unformatted text characters and line breaks without styling, images, or embedded objects.
- Plain Text
- Text data without any formatting that can be opened and edited by any text editor, making it highly interoperable.