At 5:13 pm -0500 17/2/06, Bill Steele wrote: >Text starts as Word document >Copy as styled text, paste into Tex-Edit >Use Tex-Edit replace and style run functions to convert to HTML >(used to use convertToHTML OSAX in OS 9) >Read into Applescript variable Are you aware that in TextEdit you can open a .doc file and save it as html thanks to Tiger's built-in Cocoa HTML Writer? There's one way to eliminate both Word and Tex-Edit Plus (I presume that is the app you're talking about) in one foul sweep, as Aunt Eileen would say, and end up with pretty well written UTF8-encoded html that you then deal with. JD