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In article <pcxm-cg.jeffgus@netcom.com> jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson) writes:
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>	Has anybody had experience porting Microsoft Word documents
>from Mac to Windows to Dos (the 5.1 vers)?  Do the page layouts stay
>perfectly the same or do they need retouching?  What about
>reading/writting Mac disks on an IBM comp. and visa vera?  

I have moved Mac word files to PC-based Word (Word for Windows) quite
often without many problems.  I have also gone the reverse route, but
fewer times.  In general, most formatting stays, although imbedded
graphics are almost always missing.  In terms of formatting, it seems
that saving the document in RTF format and then importing it as RTF on
the other system is best for the older versions (going from v4.0 on
the Mac to v1.1 of Word for Windows on the PC.)  For later versions,
try the native format first (Word for Windows 2.0 will import Mac Word
5.0 documents.)

In terms of actually transferring the data - Macintoshes with
SuperDrives (the 1.44HD) will easily write files to IBM high density
floppies.  I know of no way to write data to HD Mac disks on the PC.
(Central Point's COPY II PC board allows writing to 800K mac disks,
but I have never used it.)

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