Re: MS Word incompatibilties

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From: Emmanuel Prouveze
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00

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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.
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I guess that's another "marketing feature" from Micro$oft... It forces
everybody to go to ver. 6...

:-)

Emmanuel
manu@gol.com

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From: Emmanuel Prouveze <manu@yours.com>
Subject: Re: MS Word incompatibilties
Date: 1997/03/10
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