🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <B63F58B6966895FC2@10.0.1.2>,
slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:

>Importing and exporting Word files is almost impossible: Microsoft
>keep changing the format and don't document it.

The best bet is to see if you can buy an ancient copy of Word for very
little money. Several years ago I got a copy of 5.1a, which is a 68k
version and is actually quite a nice wordpro. It was also (by the time I
got it) extremely cheap. You can then add to it freely downloadable M$
translators which mean that it will read any Word file for Mac or PC, later
than Word 2... up to Word 2001. It won't handle everything, so for instance
there are graphic embedding functions in Word 6 onwards that will cause 5.1
to fail. But it will read any Word file that's come *my* way, and convert
it to RTF for example. Trying to get habitual Word users to send you RTF
files can be a losing game...

-- 
Peter