Hi Cecil yes you'll need to convert it to a "plain text" file format that only contains simple text content rather than all the structured word processing type content (that includes stuff like font styles, bold/italic, etc...) which the .doc file has.

From Word do a "Save As" and as the file type scroll down and pick "plain text", and let it have the default .txt file extension for plain text files.

Then in Rhino the file type is called something like a "Points file" for reading that in.

- Michael