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Re: PageMaker 4.2 & MS Word 5.0 -- Can They Get Along?

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From: Howard Cheng
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:59
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In article <4326@equinox.unr.edu> zhimin@unssun.nevada.edu (Zhimin Chen) writes:
>I found recently that PageMaker 4.2 doesn't important files from Word 5.0
>nor does it from WordPerfect 2.0. What's the problem with PageMaker?
>The READ ME file included in PageMaker says that the 4.2 version was 
>released before Word 4.0 was shipped, and suggests that fast-save option
>be turned off, which may solve the problem. But it doesn't! 
>
>Does anyone have come up with a solution? Suggestions will be appreciated.

There is now a Word 5.0 import filter available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Get that and all your Word documents will come out fine in PM. Enjoy.

h.
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Subject: Re: PageMaker 4.2 & MS Word 5.0 -- Can They Get Along?
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