Can I export text boxes in InDesign to a word processor

-- I need to take the text areas of our catalog proof and put them in a text document. Been looking at all of the Export > options with no luck. Haven't been able to just move them - don't really want to do a copy & paste of all of the text in each box -- would take too much time. Tried exporting to pdf - but it wasn't editable - tried epub - got just BLACK -- tried snippets
Looking to hopefully choose multiple text boxes (not bother w/ the images) and either copy and paste in a document where the text could be edited. Idea here is to edit copy from print catalog to make web optimized copy for each product. Has anyone done something like this or heard of someone who has?
I have been able to, open indd file - highlight a page or section, save as a pdf. Open in Acrobat and then Save As > rich text, or Word doc - then I can delete out the images... .
Okay -- so I guess I'm looking for something more streamlined... straight from the Indd. file to text. Anyone have any cool ideas out there?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks, I'll check that out. I did try something where it was going to export the 'stories' but I think what I got was all of the formatting markup too, it was useless to me, though I'm not positive how I got that. LIke I said, I tried every export option.
I am using CS4 -- and its funny you should mention Buzzword, macinbytes, I just saw that while googling about Bridge as a possibility. Though we'll be upgrading to CS5 early next year (budgets and year-ends, you know! : ), I need to figure out some option and how this procedure is going to work as soon as I can.
Keep the ideas coming! Someone has to know how to do this and done it!? : )

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