Inline Word Comments

This is a quick and dirty python script for taking text document with comments as exported by Word and in-lining the text of the comments at the comment marker in the document.

The process is:

* using Word, “save as” the document to a .txt file (choose ‘unicode – utf8′ but default should also work)

* python iwc.py -i infile.txt -o outfile.txt

* open up outfile.txt with your favourite editor

Be warned – the quid pro quo for doing this is you lose a lot of your formatting :( Try using Word’s compare to see the markup between the original.doc and outfile.txt to show the comments.