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Re: Microsoft Word Documents

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From: Stephen Uitti
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 16:23
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In article <Simon_Kok.3478@resbbs.UUCP> Simon_Kok@resbbs.UUCP (Simon Kok) writes:
>Salutations, we are a very small company with three key members that share 
>data (word processing documents) with each other.  One person has an Atari
>ST, another with a IBM thing, and I a Macintosh IIcx.  
> 
>At the present we are converting the documents to ASCII so each computer wil
>be able to read it.  We find this process very time consuming - what we would
>like to do is keep the formatting, font styles, sizes the same when
>converting
>from ATARI ST <--> IBM <--> MAC.  Is there some way to retain the word
>processing format?  We have MS Word for the Mac and IBM.  Is there one
>avaiable for the ATARI ST?  If so, can a IBM Word document (with type styles
>etc) be used with the Macintosh and ATARI ST? 
> 
>Simon Kok

MS Word for the Mac & PC clone can exchange files.  Word for the
Mac can read/write RTF files, the native form for PC clone Word.
I don't know of anything for the Atari, off hand.  Since the format
of RTF is public (ask Microsoft), it is at least possible that
a converter exists.

Stephen.
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From: suitti@ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Word Documents
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Date: 24 Jun 91 16:23:04 GMT
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