LyXConverter for Microsoft Word

LyXConverter creates a LyX document based on a Word document. It does this directly, in Word, without first exporting to LaTeX or going through other gyrations. The resulting LyX document is very clean, without instances of ERT or other odd artifacts.

Features LyXConverter converts the following Word features:

• Paragraph styles
• Local formatting: italics, bold, and small caps
• Numbered lists
• Bulleted lists
• Pictures
• Tables
• Footnotes
• Endnotes
• Tables of contents
• Comments
• Indexes and index entries (including main entries, subentries, subsubentries, cross-references, page ranges, and forced sorts)
• Double returns (as vertical space)
• Special characters, including quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, protected spaces, protected hyphens, nonbreaking spaces, nonbreaking hyphens, copyright symbol, trademark symbol, registered symbol, and many others

Note that LyXConverter doesn't try to reproduce the formatting of your Word document in LyX. In fact, that would make little sense. Instead, LyXConverter converts your Word document into a LyX document so that LyX can do its own formatting-which, by the way, is vastly superior to anything that can be done in Word.