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I'm looking for a free (not shareware, because I have many files to convert and I don't want limits), stable, relatively simple way to convert my phd thesis coded using "ClassicThesis" package, into a .doc (Word) document, since one of my Committee's member explicitly requested this format. I have coded my thesis in separate files applying the package to each file for my convenient elaboration. Thus, I will convert each .tex into .doc.

Please help me, I am having hard times with this last moment news! I must deliver the thesis on Feb., 20th! Many thanks in advance,

MChiara

MCM
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. As @JuriRobl pointed out, this question has been asked before. – yo' Feb 11 '14 at 10:23
  • And unfortunately there isn't a great solution. – Juri Robl Feb 11 '14 at 10:24
  • Maybe you should ask the committee member (politely) if (s)he really needs it in word format. (S)he could easily make notes on a pdf copy. – Ian Thompson Feb 11 '14 at 10:40
  • Here are some arguments to use with your Committee member. – Thruston Feb 11 '14 at 10:53
  • Last time I had to do this, I made a word doc with no margins, and pasted the pages from my PDF output into it one at a time as full page images. (But apparently that wasn't quite what they wanted... :-) – Thruston Feb 11 '14 at 10:57
  • Thank you! I have also tried to convert the generated .pdf into a .doc, but obviously all my tables and graphs have been skipped! He says he wants to make comments directly on the file (but this could be done easily on the pdf as we know...) and he told me he "knows" (?!?) LaTeX and "he knows" that .tex file can be converted into a .doc by "forcing the software". Does he really know LaTeX and its features? I will see the argument suggested... – MCM Feb 11 '14 at 10:57
  • I guess there is not a complete solution for your problem, however, if you are willing to do some work of formatting, you could try to use pandoc to transform your LaTeX to org (this is a text markup language developed by emacs users) which can be exported to ODT format. After that, with your LibreOffice or OpenOffice suite, can be saved as doc file. Uffff... it sound hard, and additionally the exports might not be perfect, so you have to check each step! – Dox Feb 11 '14 at 10:57
  • Dear friends and helpers, the professor requested explicitly a .doc file, no .odt, no .rtf, together with the .pdf -- don't ask me why! This is an odd situation. – MCM Feb 11 '14 at 11:03

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