XML has become the preferred language for representing information in documents. The goal of this research work is to allow a user to convert any document on Windows? into a standard and open document format in XML (the Extensible Markup Language). One benefit of this research is that a user can save costs by moving documents to the open document format. This saves the user from having to purchase a proprietary tool to do the same task. A second benefit is that the open document format will maintain the portability that other proprietary formats cannot offer. A third benefit is that the user would only need one environment to manage all documents. This single environment would give the user abilities such as cut, paste, search, etc for all documents.