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Article #9333Re: Microsoft WORD doesn't save text files
From: 6544
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 21:33
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 21:33
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In article <10013@zodiac.ADS.COM> jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:
>I just installed v 4.0 of Microsoft WORD and noticed that the Save
>As... box doesn't let you set the type of the file you are abou;to
>save. That means that now you cannot export your Microsoft WORD
>documents to arbitrary formats like macWrite or just plain text.
>Sounds like Microsoft is trying to lock people into using WORD.
>
>Grumble.
Try clicking the "File Format..." button in the "Save As..." dialog
box. This should get you to a dialog where you can set the file
format to text, MacWrite, RTF, and other MS word processing formats.
/ George D. Nincehelser
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