sending word text to a .txt file

Is there a way to select all of the text on an open word document through vba and send it to a .txt file?

Also could this be done continuously so that the word document and text file contain the same words?

What about formatting in word, is there a way of getting past this so that extra white space is not sent to the txt file?

Thanks

You mean like some kind of logger that writes the keypresses out to a textfile? Word already makes
backup copies of the document when it is being worked on, if the option is selected.

i need to run a perl module on the text. It works if run it on a .txt file however with all the formatting in word it goes crazy and cannot read it. Therefore i am sending all the text in the word document to a .txt file.

I would like to do it on keypress which i think would be done using a loop?

Also i am afraid that the formatting might still be sent to the .txt file and cause problems

Soundslike allot of issues may arrise if you do it on the keypress. You can do the
entire doc using the SaveAs method.

VB Code:

ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="C:\DocumentText.txt", FileFormat:=wdFormatDOSText