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title: "Get Rich Text From Word Document Step"
slug: "get-rich-text-from-word-document-step"
tags: ["richtext", "Word"]
updated: 2025-07-09T15:24:48Z
published: 2025-07-09T15:24:48Z
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# Get Rich Text From Word Document Step

| ## Step Details |
| --- |
| **Introduced in Version** | 5.0.0 |
| **Last Modified in Version** | 5.0.0 |
| **Location** | Data > MS Word |

The **Get Rich Text From Word Documen****t** step extracts text from a Word Document and formats the text with HTML elements.

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## Properties

#### Inputs

| Property | Description | Data Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Word Document | Word document to get text from | FileData |

#### Outputs

| Property | Description | Data Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Output | Text from Word document | String |

#### ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/image-1667504027337.png)

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Related Information

[](https://documentation.decisions.com/projects/docs/combining-pdfs)Forum Posts: [Rich Text Box Cutting My Input Text](https://community.decisions.com/search?query=Rich%20Text%20Box%20Cutting%20My%20Input%20Text&scope=site) [Inserting Text Into Word Documents](https://community.decisions.com/discussion/108/inserting-text-into-word-documents)

## Related

- [Appending Word Documents](/appending-word-documents.md)
- [HTML to Word Document Step](/html-word-document-step.md)
- [Combine Multiple Word Documents Step](/combine-multiple-word-documents-step.md)
- [Get Document Bookmarks Step](/get-document-bookmarks-step.md)