Most of the speech syntesiser dagets that I have require a plain text versi= on. I often have dozens of Microsoft word documents to read and open each = into Woprd and saving at plain text is very laborious. In fact more labori= ous with more recent versions of Microsoft Office. Can anynody recpmmend a Windows based programme that can take a large numbe= r of word files and spit them out as plain text? Graham