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I would like to hear about any experiences people have creating documents
using Word 3.01 on a Mac, writing them out as DCA formated files (a Word 
option), transfering those files to a PC, and then editing the documents
using WordPerfect on an IBM PC or PC clone. In particular, I would like to
know what features of a complex document survive such a transfer intact,
which do not but can be fixed with a little work on the PC, and which are
hopelessly garbled.

Why? You can probably guess; I bet the story is quite familiar. Our group got
a few Macs. Some of us started using them to prepare documents and the like,
editing them ourselves. It was faster than hand-writing them or printing the
Mac-produced files and then having a secretary type them into an archaic,
Brand X, stand-alone word-processor (adding typo's along the way). Middle
management noticed this situation and decided it was not cost-effective.
They replaced the secretaries' archaic, Brand X, stand-alone word-processors.
But not with Macs. They replaced them with PC clones running WordPerfect.
They also want to replace our Macs with PC clones so we can run WordPerfect
for document creation and pass the files to the secretaries for further editing.

We Mac users would rather not give up our Macs. One option is to buy copies of
WordPerfect for the Mac when it is shaken-down. But middle management, having
tolerated the archaic, Brand X, stand-alone, word-processors for many years
now feels an urgent need to set things right IMMEDIATELY. An interim measure
would appear to be using DCA as an intermediate format for moving document files
back and forth. If that works tolerably well.