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In article <3323C489.1316@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lamphier@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote:

> What is the story with MS Word for Macintosh??? It used to be a decent
> word processing program, but version 6 is not only hopelessly
> complicated and slow but it appears to be incompatible with other
> versions of the same program! I have found that files written in MS Word
> ver. 5 can be opened with ver. 6, but not vice versa. Yet ver. 6 files
> cannot be saved back into the ver 5 format. This means that once you
> open a ver. 5 file with a ver. 6 program and do a little editing you are
> stuck with using ver. 6 -- you cannot go back to the ver. 5 program. 

I think that you got it right first time. 6 sucks 5.1 is reasonable.
I suggest that you use Claris works because it opens both versions.
6 is a clunky port of a Windows App that leaves you open to the Word
macro bug. Not to mention the unreasonable startup time and the various
temp files it clutters your hard drive with!

> And now I find that MS Word-J ver. 6 (Japanese version) is incompatible
> with the standard MS Word ver. 6 ! ! ! !  A file created with MS-Word-J
> is not recognized by the English version, even if thje file is entirely
> in English, and it has to be converted back into text before it can be
> read.
Its not even word script aware, Claris works 4x handles Kanji no prob,
and translates Word 6 and 5 files.

> This is weird -- what are these guys thinking? ? ? (ya, I know...
> they're thinking "you should buy a PC and install Windows"). 
Its all a plot by Evil Bill, he lives onthe Death Star you know, but dont
worry we are the Rebel Forces. I think Bill is pissed off because his
operating system only runs on those slow old Pentium 200's
 
> Is there a way of converting between MS-Word Ver. 5, MS-Word Ver. 6 and
> MS-Word-J Ver. 6 that I am missing?
Install the Data viz translaters in System 7.6 free in the constantly updated
Mac OS, when is that long overdue bug fix for Win 95 comming out............
 
> -Marc Lamphier
> University of Tokyo