Re: ATARI 1040 ST-fm First Word Plus Help Request

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From: Trooper
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 00:00

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>Re: ATARI 1040 ST-fm First Word Plus Help Request
>
>Dear Atari Folks,
>
>I'm trying to help an older gentleman who invested in an
>Atari machine for word processing many years ago.
>
>I need your help to find information about how to "export"
>several large, important documents from First Word Plus (the
>word processor) on the
>
>        Atari 1040 ST - fm (platform)
>
>to any DOS or Windows MS Word, Wordperfect or ASCII format.
>
>If you cannot advise, I may have to *print* the documents
>and then scan them with OCR!  I'm hoping you may have a
>better, more straightforward solution??  Please?
>
>Thank you, in advance, for any advice you may supply.
>
> Pax,
As far as I can rember, all you need to do is go to EDIT menu and turn off the
WP mode, you can then go to save as and save as a TXT file.
Change the extender from ******.DOC to ******.TXT.
Good luck 
Phil 

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