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iq@incentre.net (Mike Brown -- Interquest Business Solutions Inc.)
wrote:

>I have been having problems with a client who uses both
>WinWord 6.0c and WPWin 6.x(6-point-something).. Documents
>created in WPWin can't be imported correctly into WinWord
>and vice-versa.  The WPWin doc have .WPD extensions, and the
>WinWord docs have .DOC extensions.

>Is there a magic incantation that I need to chant?  Is there
>a utility (shareware, freeware, commercial) that will do
>this? Is there a patch to either of the products that will
>help?

MS has an update that will let Word6 read WP6.1 files, but it cannot
write to WP6.1 (I forget the name)

WP already reads Word6. If you want to write to Word6, you need the
conversion filter. (Again, I forget the name)

That said, there is no really "clean" way to convert between the two,
as I have found when I did some test conversions a while back (the
powers-that-be wanted us to standardize on Word--I convinced 'em this
was a BAD idea, although I may have gotten away with it because my
group doesn't share documents with any other part of the company). As
near as I can tell, converting Word6 to WP6.1 is easier than the other
way around. Word6 has some really SCREWY ways of handling headers and
footers and tables and columns and . . . .

JMHO

Lin