Is it possible to CONVERT file formats?

Hey all, We are trying to develop a system to allow people to upload meeting minutes from our organization's meetings. We'd like to assume no HTML knowledge on the user's part. The easiest method would be to ask them just to upload plain text, or to upload their MS Word file (as they do now) and hope everyone can read MS Word. Ideally, however, I'd like to be able to allow them the niceities of HTML (bold, italic, underline, big, small) without any specific file format. Are there any systems in place to take a file such as a basic Word file and convert its text (roughly) to HTML? Not a whole HTML page, like as if you exported it to HTML from Word, just the text and its properties. If anyone knows of anything like this, it would be great. Thanks! -Mike Flynn Come the millennium month 12, in the home of the greatest power, the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader. (Nostradamus, 1555) I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes. (George W. Bush, 2000)