Re: DOS to Mac problem

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From: kaikow
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 18:08

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Word 6 on Windows does not have the same file formats as the previous 
version, e.g., paragraph marks are represented differently.

In article <2ilnl8$a87@c3po.jvnc.net>, Mike James <mpjames@rohmhaas.com> wrote:
>In article <2f0uva$sl@panix.com>, knox@panix.com (D Knox) says:
>>
>>Can anybody tell me what to use to translate a heavily footnoted document
>>from Word in the DOS or Windows world to Word for the Mac? It seems the limit
>>before everything screws up is sixteen footnotes, making for one *very* 
>>frustrated writer...
>>
>>Diane Knox
>>knox@panix.com
>>knox@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
>>
>Hi, I suggest that you don't try to translate the article at all. 
>I've found that WinWord 2.0c will readily open up MacWord 5.1 
>documents without any translation.  It screws up worse when
>I save the MacWord document in WinWord format.  
>
>The same holds true for WinWord to MacWord translation.  MacWord 5.1
>opens up WinWord 2.0 documents without any translation.  
>
>The new Word 6 versions are supposed to have *exactly* the same file
>format, so that translation will be completely unnecessary...
>
>Mike
>mpjames@rohmhaas.com
>(no one shares my views... :)

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