If you want to remove all the unnecessary characters and formatting styles of Word documents and want to convert them to plain text, word2text is the place to go. It lets you clean and convert your Word documents to text. This is useful if you want to use the text in the word documents online like for writing blog posts, in websites, for e-mails etc. It gives plain text which can be used directly.
The site has a simple interface, to convert your word documents to text format, go to word2text , Copy and paste the word document data in the first box, Click convert and you will get the plain text in other box. This word document to text convertor is free to use.