🚀 go-pugleaf

Marc Fuller 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. 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.
> 

If you need to work on a Word 5 file in Word 6: When you're finished,
and before closing it, Save As a Word 5 or 5.1 file (dialog box gives
you a choice). Then when you open it again in Word 5, it'll be fine.