Re: MS Word incompatibilties

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From: Marc Fuller
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00

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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. 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.
>snip

This is old stuff. Microsoft has a free translator to go backwards
from ver 6 and Windows 95 (same format) to Mac 5.1. The new problem is
that there is now a version 7 out (Office 97) which is not compatible
with either of these previous versions.

Marc S. Fuller
CVRTI, University of Utah

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From: marc.fuller@m.cc.utah.edu (Marc Fuller)
Subject: Re: MS Word incompatibilties
Date: 1997/03/10
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