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Re: MS Word - I need to run it

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From: chris Chris Larson
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 01:14
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Bob Peirce #305 writes
> My youngest goes to a school where they run MS Word on PCs and Macs.
> At least I believe it runs on both machines; I've never used either.
> Anyhow, I need to get some compatibility on the NeXT.  What's the
> best way?  She needs to be able to work at school AND home on the
> same floppy.
> 

I export documents from WriteNow as RTF files and import them into MS Word, and it seems  
to work great.  I've never tried going the other way (PC -> NeXT), but it _should_ work. 

That's what I'd do.

Chris
 
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Oceania Health Care Systems       Palo Alto, CA (415) 322-0127
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Subject: Re: MS Word - I need to run it
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