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i've had tried opening pc-created word files with sounds and graphics and
i've had TERRIBLE results.  microsoft really didn't have their heads
together with regard to cross-platform stuff when they wrote ms office.

In article <5lhnff$ag7$2@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>,
paul.mcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk (Paul McIlroy) wrote:

>Somebody posted me a Word for PC file.  Using the Microsoft translator
>it reads nicely into Word 5 for Mac, except that the pictures
>disappear, leaving a blank space where they should be, with a
>corresponding reduction in file size.  We have tried a few simple
>tests:-
>
>Word PC ==> Mac Word 5                   -   Text OK, pictures vanish
>Word PC ==> Mac Word 6                   -   Text and pictures both OK
>Word PC ==> Mac Word 6 ==> Mac Word 5    -   Text OK, pictures vanish
>Mac Word 6 with PICT format pictures
>                       ==> Mac Word 5    -   Text and pictures both OK
>
>Any ideas why this should be?  Do PCs use a picture format that Mac
>Word 6
>understands but Mac Word 5 doesn't ?  Is there any easy way round it ?
>
>Paul Mc. (pmcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk)

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