How to use file converter in viewer

With converters (text filters) you can extract plain textual contents from numerous file types such as DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTM, HTML, PDF, XLS, XLSX, XML, PPT, HLP, etc. The converted text file is used then in viewer.

How to use XDOC2TXT

• Download the last version of the free utility xdoc2txt from the site
• Extract the content of the archive to e.g. c:\tools\xdoc2txt
• Define the viewer options for converter

• Open the viewer with F3
• Click on main menu item "View" in viewer and activate the option "Show converted file"

How to use Quick Starter (example)

1. Creating repository 

• - open your Windows folder in FreeCommander 
• - use Ctrl+B to switch to flat view (my Windows 7/64 has 99376 files) 
• - select all the files with Ctrl+A 
• - open Quick Starter with Ctrl+Shift+T 
• - create new repository: Repository->Create new... (as repository name type Test1) 
• - take all in main window selected files  in repository: Edit->Add selected from main window... 
• - the Test1 repository is now created 
• - press Esc for closing Quick Starter 
• - switch off flat view with Ctrl+B in main window 

2. How to use the repository (we want to find notepad.exe in our repository) 

• - open Quick Starter with Ctrl+Shift+T 
• - type the name (or part of the name you know): notepad.exe 
• - if you once press the false key - simply use backspace key 
• - I have now only 24 lines in my repository view 
• - if I make the Quick Starter window wide enough, I can see the paths 
• - I decide for the line with c:\windows\notepad.exe 
• - for starting the program I can press Enter 
• - I  use Ctrl+Space for selecting the file in main window 

The repository can contain files and folders and you can define many repositories. 

The structure of the repository file is very simple: 

nameTABpath 

For searching/filtering in the repository only the name is important. 

You can use wildcards only if you type directly in the search field (at the bottom left) - the filtering/searching will be started now with Enter key.  

What is FileCart

File cart is a new tab type. The content of the file cart is a list of files/folders.

You can create file cart from menu  View->"New file cart tab" or from tab context menu.