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Yes, there is some meat below,  but I have included most of the earlier
stuff for your reference.

In article <507ftd$dgv@info.usuhs.mil>,
I. Levine <levine@vax.afrri.usuhs.mil> wrote:
>richgr@netcom.com (Rich Greenberg) wrote:

>>>To go from Word 6.0c to WPWin 6.1, you can open the document with WordPerfect
>>>and have WordPerfect convert it. Alternatively, you can save the Word
>>>document in WPDOS 5.1 format, and then open it with WPWin 6.1.

>>This is only true if you have obtained CVWW6X.EXE from the Corel web/ftp
>>site and installed it.  It adds filters for Word 6 reading and writing
>>to 6.1.  I haven't tried to do so,  but I have heard it can be used with
>>6.0a also.  If you have no way to get it,  let me know and I will email
>>you a uuencoded (or base64 encoded) copy.

>     Does this really work??  We've got networked copies of
>WordPerfect 6.1, and, having loaded this patch according to the
>instructions, I'm having no luck at all reading MS Word 6.0 documents
>that were saved with the FAST SAVE option turned on.  The patch didn't
>seem to make any difference at all!  
>      We don't have the option of telling the suppliers of the  Word 6
>documents to resave their work without Fast Save or in some other
>format.   Many of our users want to switch from WordPerfect to Word
>for this reason alone!  
>    Has anyone actually found that CVWW6X made any difference??  What
>vintage of WP6.1 were you using?  The "About WordPerfect" menu
>selection in our Help says "Program Release:  11/4/94."  
>   Was there something else you needed to do beyond what it says in
>the README file that comes with it?

I have no idea what FAST SAVE is or does differently.  I have used it
successfully to exchange docs with Word 6.

When you do a "Save As", in the list of types,  is MS Word 6.0 listed,
or only MS Word 2 (in 4 flavors)?  Also when you try to open a word 6 file, 
is word 6 in that list of types?

If either or both is NO, its not installed properly.  Part of the
install instructions have you put "ScanForConverters=1" under the
[WPCORP] section of the WIN.INI.  The next time you start WP,  it will
see this,  find the filter in the \WPC20 Shared code directory, and
update the BIF to point to it.

Its my guess that on a network,  it would need to be in the network's
shared code directory,  and the info for it would be in the network BIF.
To do this,  it would have to be done by a user with write access to the
network files,  and perhaps not having a local BIF.  Perhaps you need to
copy the WPCSET.BIF to your local drive,  install the filter,  and move
the system BIF back to the network. (just a guess)
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