Word 97 (.doc) → Highland (.highland)

Pro Rescuing a script out of Word 97 (DOC) (.doc) is the Pro part — from there it converts to Highland (.highland) and every other format on the site. The button below opens the converter with the output format already selected, and the server checks your plan when the file is dropped in.

Run this conversion

Convert Word 97 (.doc) → Highland (.highland)

Opens the homepage converter with Highland already selected as the output — drop your file, press Convert Script.

What survives this conversion

styled paragraphs carrying screenplay element structure
bold, italic and underline runs
three decades of legacy scripts written before .docx existed

What can be lost

same as Fountain: layout is conventional, not absolute

Every conversion includes an honest report listing anything that could not translate — you see it before downloading.

How this pair works

Your Word 97 (DOC) file is parsed into a canonical screenplay model (by verified content, not just the file extension), then rendered as Highland. Highland background: Highland (2012, Quote-Unquote Apps — John August & Nima Yousefi) made Fountain-first screenwriting popular on the Mac. A .highland file is a ZIP package based on the TextBundle format holding the .fountain text plus metadata.