Convert DOTX to TXT — Free Online Converter
Convert Word Open XML Template (.dotx) to Plain Text (.txt) online for free. Fast, secure document conversion with no watermarks or registration....
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About DOTX to TXT Conversion
DOTX is Microsoft Word's Open XML template format containing formatted boilerplate content, styles, and page settings. TXT (Plain Text) is the simplest text format — pure character data with no formatting, images, or structural markup. Every computing device ever manufactured can read TXT files.
Converting DOTX to TXT extracts the raw textual content from a Word template, stripping all formatting, images, styles, and template properties. The result is the most portable possible representation of the template's written content.
Why Convert DOTX to TXT?
Plain text extraction is essential for content processing workflows. When template text needs to be fed into databases, search indexes, NLP analysis tools, CMS platforms, or version control systems, TXT is the required input format. No parsing libraries or format-specific tools are needed.
TXT also provides the ultimate long-term preservation guarantee. While DOTX requires software that understands the Open XML specification, TXT files are readable by any system capable of displaying characters. For archiving textual content with no dependency on any specific technology, TXT is unmatched.
Common Use Cases
- Extract boilerplate text from Word templates for import into content management systems
- Feed template text into search indexes or text analysis pipelines
- Create plain text backups of template content for maximum portability
- Import template text into version control for change tracking and diffing
- Prepare template content for automated text processing or translation workflows
How It Works
LibreOffice imports the DOTX file and extracts text content from the document XML. The extraction engine walks the paragraph and table structures, pulling character content while discarding all formatting XML elements. Table content is linearized with tab-character separation. Headers, footers, and footnotes are included as part of the text stream. The output is UTF-8 encoded plain text with standard line endings.
Quality & Performance
All textual content is extracted with full accuracy. All visual presentation — formatting, fonts, colors, styles, page layout, images, charts, and SmartArt — is completely removed. Tables become tab-delimited rows. The output contains only the characters that appear in the template's text content.
Device Compatibility
| Device | DOTX | TXT |
|---|---|---|
| Windows PC | Partial | Partial |
| macOS | Partial | Partial |
| iPhone/iPad | Partial | Partial |
| Android | Partial | Partial |
| Linux | Partial | Partial |
| Web Browser | No | No |
Tips for Best Results
- 1TXT is ideal for feeding template content into automated processing systems that only accept plain text
- 2Keep the original DOTX if you need the formatted version for any purpose
- 3Review table data to ensure tab-separated extraction captured the content correctly
- 4Use UTF-8 compatible text editors to view the output and ensure all characters display properly
- 5For formatted output, convert to DOCX or RTF instead of TXT
DOTX-to-TXT conversion strips all formatting and visual elements from Word template content, producing the most portable and universally compatible plain text representation for content processing and long-term preservation.