DC> Looking for a way to export a word document file into ASCII
DC> that honours tabs, margins, auto-numbering, etc. Tabs are
DC> 'padded' uniformly so that text has proper alignment.
This is a very tricky process.  Converting to ascii usually means changing 
from a porportional font to a fixed width font.
Here's a general procedure that will get you started.  Its difficulty will 
depend on how well formatted the document was to begin with.  If you have a 
document full of tabs and spaces used to adjust layout along with 
proportional fonts, the result may be hopeless.
1. Select the entire document using Control-A.
2. Change the fonts for the entire document to courier font, 12 pt. with no 
bold, and no underline.
3. Manually adjust formatting until it looks OK within word.  When you 
convert from a proportional font to a fixed font, you will be faced with 
getting fewer characters on a line of text.  This may cause you to have to do 
major rework of columns of text.
4. When complete, perform Save As "MS-DOS text with Layout".
This procedure is not foolproof because Word's MS-Dos text with layout is 
buggy.  But its about the only way I know to convert to plain ascii and 
retain pagination, headers, footers, page numbering, paragraph numbering, 
c.
Bob
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