Have you considered copying your letter, then inserting the text in an image
box, such as a rectangle? The box, with the text, will then be a graphical
image you can copy to Paint or another graphics program.

JASil

"LinusF" wrote:

How does one go about converting files in .doc format (I have Office 2003,
WinXP + Photoshop, Irfanview, etc)? I have a collection of Christmas letters
from others in the family but mine cannot be displayed with them unless I
print them out and scan them. There must be another way! FYI neither Word
apparently has no bitmapped output and Paint does not recognize DOC. The
various net-centric Word outputs indicate that formating will be lost. Thanks