automatic ms-word to text

good evening,

I am on this life long mission to move some in-house work into the Windows 
environment. It is a long story but for now I process a text file to extract 
certain information for processing by a DOS programme. I need to keep this 
simple for a sighted user who is also using Word so, I would like to open one 
plane text file in Word and when ever updated and saved it should also be saved 
as a plane text file. This must be done without the operator having to remember 
to save that file in text format while any other files opened will continue to 
work as regular .doc files.

I need a reliable method of always insuring that one particular file will 
always be handled as a .TXT file. Admittedly this part of the problem is not a 
programming issue but I don't want to have to open a text editor along with 
teaching the special command set of that editor to be learned.

Thanks.

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