Kword/1.6/MSWrite

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Microsoft Write Filter

Imports almost everything except OLE from MS Write (3.0 & 3.1) documents:

Character formatting (fonts, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, "(page)" numbering)
Optional/Soft Hyphenation
Paragraph formatting (alignment, linespacing, indentation, tabulation)
Paragraphs with multiple newlines
Pagebreaking (at the start or end of the line and on the next line)
Images (Standard WMFs, monochrome BMPs, position from left margin)
Character Set Conversion
Headers & Footers (including whether or not they are printed on first page)
Page formatting (margins, positioning of headers & footers, page numbers starting from any number)

Exports text, images and a useful amount of formatting to MS Write 3.0 documents:

This import/export filter pair is almost "symmetric" i.e. export (import (f)) = f
It can export everything that the import filter can import except Page Layout
Images of various types (e.g. BMP, JPEG, WMF, PNG) are supported
Tables are simply dumped out as paragraphs
Basic list support