ANSI Text to .SRT

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Hi all,

This is my first post. I read many post looking for answers, but nothing seems to work. I am trying to add subtitles into music videos. All my lyrics are in Notepad (which is a .txt file)
or in Mircosoft WORD format. I'm trying to learn German by adding German subitles to German music videos. I use Subtitle Workshop & Virtualdub. Subtitle Workshop won't open up a .txt file, thus i have to copy each line into Subtitle Workshop. This does work. I do have the german lyrics on the video & it plays just find. It took me about an hour or 2 to get the subtitles into the video. ANYWAY, i figured there's got to be an easier faster way to do this. Is there a way i can convert the notepad .TXT files or WORD files to .SRT or .SSA Format?