Frequently I find myself in the position of needing to combine several MSWord and/or rtf documents into a single file for either pdftex or Context. I have settled on this strategy. 1. If necessary I convert the documents to rtf with Open Ofice Writer. 2. I convert the resulting rtf documents to LaTeX using rtf2latex2e. 3. I need to rename some of the LaTeX commands to their plain TeX or Context equivalents, and simply ignore others. Instead of editing each and every occurrence, I add the following to my "macros.tex" file which heads up the document: ---------------------------------------------------- \def\documentclass{} \def\newcommand{} \def\usepackage{} \def\tab{} \def\hspace{} \def\begin{} \def\end{} \def\textbf#1{\bf #1} \def\nobreakspace{~} \def\underline{} \def\newpage{} \def\textmd#1{\rm #1} \def\textit#1{\it #1} \def\large{\tfb} \def\reg{\rm\char174\ } \def\textregistered{\reg} ------------------------------------------------------ I create a master file that calls in each of the .tex files and compile the whole goulash. If I missed a latex tag then I add it to my \defs shown above and recompile until I get a clean run. Now I have a readable pdf file and can start correcting the format. The scattered Latex tags give me hints where centering etc. might be needed even though the tags are inoperative in Context, thanks to my nullifying \def statements shown above. Someday there will be an elegant solution to the MSWord to Context problem. For now there is my ugly hack as described here. -- John Culleton