Re: MS Word incompatibilties

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From: Verne Arase
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00

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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 just tried as "Save As ...", and MS Word 5.0 and 5.1 both appeared in the
File Type popup.

Did you install all the translators?

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From: varase@flash.net (Verne Arase)
Subject: Re: MS Word incompatibilties
Date: 1997/03/10
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