Quark help needed

[hep25]

I'm working with Quark 5 and trying to pull text in from Word 2000. At the moment I end up taking the text files into Wordperfect so that I can make ANSI files and save them as .xtg files. Surely there some way I can skip this and convert my Word documents straight into to .xtg files? Do I need to buy some kind of Xtension to do this or something?

There's nothing particularly complicated about the files, I just want to save the italics etc and other similar formatting.

Also with Quarks find and replace function, is there any way to search for two characters together which have different attributes (like one wildcard character in italic followed by another in bold?)

Thanks!