Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HXT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HXT to another file type
To convert your HXT file to another format, you need Visual_Studio or other Developer software.
Convert a file to HXT
To convert other file formats to the "Documentation" file type, you need software like Visual_Studio or a similar tool.
About HXT files
The .HXT file extension identifies a Table of Contents file used within the Microsoft Help 2.x documentation system. Introduced alongside Visual Studio .NET, this format relies on XML structure to define the hierarchy and navigation tree of help topics. While efficient for the integrated help viewers of the early 2000s, .HXT files present significant hurdles today. They are component files, meaning they are rarely useful in isolation; they typically function only when compiled into a HxS (Help Compiled Storage) archive or referenced by a master collection file (HxC). Because the Help 2.x engine is now legacy technology - superseded by Microsoft Help Viewer - opening these files natively often requires outdated versions of Visual Studio or specialized documentation tools like Help & Manual. Users frequently run into problems because modern web browsers and standard text editors do not render the intended tree view, displaying raw XML tags instead.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HXT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted XHTML, HXL, HXW and HXK files.
FAQ
If you want to convert HXT file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use Visual_Studio or similar software from the "Help System Navigation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to HXT, try Visual_Studio or another comparable tool in the "Help System Navigation" category.
The HXT Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HXT converter.