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Getting Blog Text Into Book? WTF?

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I hate to use a blog to solve for this, but everything else including MOTHER GOOGLE has failed me.

I am writing a book, and I want to leverage the text from this blog… three years of crap here. Not too schabby. I can export from WordPress (this blog’s software) into an XML document. But it’s got some errors or can’t easily be turned into text… even with some word editor.

My goal is to pull 400 posts from this blog (that Jan, thank you, has identifies as potential content for the book). Alas, it’s looking like I’m going to have to pay someone to manually do that horrendous job.

Ideally I’d like to export the 400 blog posts from WillVideoForFood.com into a word document that preserves only the title, the copy (perhaps the hyperlinks and date). No comments or photos… sorry backrow.

Damnit I thought that would be easy, but it’s sent me into a spiriling of nothing.

Anyone?

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Export WordPress Blog (XML) to Microsoft Word (video plea)

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I’ve searched for four hours on Google to determine how to transfer my WordPress blog content to a Microsoft Word document. How on Earth can this be so difficult?

Am I the first person that’s ever wanted to turn their blog into a book? I’m not looking for anything fancy. Just want to turn the default backup of WordPress (an XML file that nothing seems to recognize including BlogBooker) into something that Word can read. Willing to pay for software that makes it easy, but can’t even find a paid solution much less a free tool.

Ideally I’d like to keep the images, tags, and categories intact but I can live without that. Ideally I’d also just want the posts not the comments. The comments, which are better than the blog, deserve a separate book.

Anyone!?

P.S. Xtranormal.com sucks.