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How do I Convert a Folder full of text files to Microsoft Word Document?

Even though it is easy to convert one file at a time, Sometimes you need to convert an entire directory of text Files (or rtf files) to Docs. You can do this easily on the command line using Docto.

The command line below shows how you can convert all the text files in a folder to a Microsoft Word Document file - Doc. If you provide a directory and an extension, docto knows to convert all the documents matching that extension in that directory.

Command Line

docto -WD -f 'c:\path\todocuments' -fx .txt -o 'c:\path\toOutputfiles' -t wdFormatDocumentDefault

or easier to read

docto  -WD 
       -f 'c:\path\todocuments' 
       -fx '.txt'
       -o 'c:\path\toOutputfiles' 
       -t wdFormatDocumentDefault

Command Line Explained

• -WD : This is a conversion using Microsoft Word.
• -f : The File or directory to be converted
• -fx : File with this extension should be matched.
• -o : The Output File or Directory where you would like the converted file to be written to.
• -T : The file format type that is being converted to

When providing an extension to search for do not include the initial *, so *.txt should be .txt

Some other interesting commands

You might find some of the following commands also interesting.

• Convert a Word Document to a Doc file;