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Maire Black wrote:
> 
> Emmanuel Prouveze <manu@yours.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes they can.  I have a version 6 to 5.x converter which I downloaded a
> few months ago from the Microsoft site.  It works beautifully, and I now
> have no problems with opening Word6 files from either Mac or PC.  The
> mystery is, where is it gone?  I looked at the Microsoft "Free Stuff"
> download site and it's nowhere to be seen.  There are tons of other
> converters, but not this one.

My organization, which spans manufacturing and engineering sites around
the world, has had serious problems with conversions from Word 5.1 to
Word 6.  We get random distortions in drawings and scanned images, which
renders the documents useless.  This problem seemed to appear with Word
6.  We routinely use the converter which Maire mentions, and it works
very well on text and photos.

The graphics distortion is infuriating!  There is no consistency to it.
The way an individual document will behave seems to be determined by a
combination of factors: Mac model, Word version, available RAM, graphic
source (usually MacDraw/ClarisDraw, some others...), phase of the moon,
background radiation count, ambient temperature, humidity, and/or pollen
count.  A document may display & print fine on my station in the
morning, and fail in the afternoon.  If we edit a distorted graphic, it
will correct itself - temporarily.

I've looked at MicroSoft's website, but there is no mention of such a
problem.  Others in our organization have called MS, and been told that
the problem is with the graphics, not Word.  Many of these drawings have
been successfully embedded in our documents for years, through multiple
revisions, multiple Mac OS changes, various 68K & PPC platforms, and the
problems didn't arise until Word 6 arrived on the scene.  Hmmmm...

We've found a couple of workarounds, but they're pretty labor
intensive.  Has anyone got any suggestions!!??

Ron