hello, I have an application that we have used for 6 years. It relied on opening word(97 or 200) and then save as "text with layout"
well in 2003 and the current security "fixes" it seems that text with layou (*.ans) is no longer available.

The goal is to get a plain text file that has spaces for paragraph indents and tabs. Each line has a CR/LF to eliminate word wrap.

the source file is an RTF that is opened in word for the user to edit.

the plain text file is imported into our cad software.
It can't read the rtf directly as the source file exceeds its maximum file size for importing.(autocad)

I have tried saving as text with CR/LF which give me the text, but I loose the indenting. Headings are left justified with sub paragraphs over 0.2" and then sub-sub over 0.4" and so on.

the indenting is extremly important as it seems like a huge mess of text without some logical indentations.

any help is appreciated.
thanks