Remove non ASCII characters from MS Word and save as text file using Excel VBA

iknowu99

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Hello Excellers,
I wrote a script to convert Word Doc to text and I need help removing characters that are non ascii. Everything saved to the text needs to be within 0-255 ascii and if there are characters that are not then they are removed.


Code:
Sub wrdDocTest()
Dim wd As Word.Application
Dim wDoc As Word.Document


Set wd = New Word.Application
Set wDoc = wd.Documents.Open(Range("A2").Value) 'MS Word data

'here need step to remove non 0-255 ASCII characters from wDoc object

Call wDoc.SaveAs(Replace(Range("A2"), ".docx", ".txt"), wdFormatDOSText, , , , , , , , , , , 

wDoc.Close
Set wDoc = Nothing
wd.Quit
Set wd = Nothing


End Sub
 

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