Hi Prakash

Prakash Mistry wrote:
I just need to PRE-FORMAT a plain text report (from a DOS legacy output)
so that when I open in Word, it has the headings etc. formatted.
This is like HTML markup.
However, I can't seem to find any way to do this.
Sorry if this sounds so dumb.

Not "dumb", but not clear enough: Is this a one-time task, or do you
need to edit various files like this?

If you work with Word, then the usual way is to open up the text in Word
itself, see which internal converter (File | Open: Filetype) works best,
and then maybe use Search/Replace to get what you desire. Another
alternative would be to preprocess your text files in a text editor of
your choice and end up with an HTML file (which Word can open since Word
97) or XML file (Word 2003 prof.). What way you chose depends on your
knowledge of the structure of the files at hand, and of the amount of
files we're dealing with here ...

2cents
..bob
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