Rich Text File to Word converter

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Author Message David G. Axt, CCS, CSI ,SCIP Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 1380 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 11:51 pm:    I have a project where the architect is giving me BSD Speclink output files in an .rtf format. I need to convert these files to Word. Is there a batch file converter program that you have used with success? A Google search comes up with many online file converters, but I am a little leery about using them. Thanks. David G. Axt, CCS, CSI, SCIP Specifications Consultant/Web Publisher www.localproductreps.com Nathan Woods, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 618 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 - 02:08 am:    Have you tried using Word to covert them? Word reads RTF just fine, so it seems like it would work.... Scott Piper Senior Member Username: spiper Post Number: 17 Registered: 08-2014 Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 - 09:31 am:    Does the architect still have access to the speclink files/program. You can export files in speclink to a number of formats. RTF is the default but they can also be exported to: pdf, word, plain text, html David E Lorenzini Senior Member Username: deloren Post Number: 165 Registered: 04-2000 Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 - 10:05 am:    You really don't need a mass conversion utility. Since you have to open each file anyway to edit them, just use the SaveAs command to save them. This brings up a Windows dialog box with the bottom input box "Save as Type". Use the pull down arrow to select the format you want, such as .Doc or .Docx. My suggestion is to do it in two steps. When you first open the .rtf, immediately do a SaveAs to a folder where you want to store the file as an original. Then edit it for your project and save it to your project file. David Lorenzini, FCSI, CCS Architectural Resources Co.