MS Word incompatibilties

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From: lamphier
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00

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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. 

And now I find that MS Word-J ver. 6 (Japanese version) is incompatible
with the standard MS Word ver. 6 ! ! ! !  A file created with MS-Word-J
is not recognized by the English version, even if thje file is entirely
in English, and it has to be converted back into text before it can be
read.

This is weird -- what are these guys thinking? ? ? (ya, I know...
they're thinking "you should buy a PC and install Windows"). 

Is there a way of converting between MS-Word Ver. 5, MS-Word Ver. 6 and
MS-Word-J Ver. 6 that I am missing?

-Marc Lamphier
University of Tokyo

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From: lamphier@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Subject: MS Word incompatibilties
Date: 1997/03/10
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