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Steve Parker wrote:
> 
> Niels Groeneveld wrote:
> >
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to open a mcw file (microsoft word for the mac) or
> > how to convert it to a word 6.0 or higher macword format ?
> > It seems to be a word file, but both word 6.0 and office 98 don't know this
> > file format..
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Niels Groeneveld
> 
> I seem to remember that mcw format sometimes indicative of MacWrite II,
> rather than MS Word format - but in nay case Word 6 and 98 can both
> open files in that format as well as word 5 for Mac.  Are you "dragging and
> dropping" onto Word 6 or 98, or are you using file-open and selecting the
> file to be opened WITHIN Word.
> 

I don't know if this is the only way to create MCW files, but...

MCW files are created by Word 6.0 (on Windows) when you select the save as Mac
Word 5.1 option. However they seem to be pretty crappy because my Word 5.1a
won't recognise them - probably because of the PC format. If I double-click
then the Dataviz translators kick-in (I'm running MacOS 8.1) which claim to be
converting them to Word 6 - which I don't have - and then it launches Word 5
and the files are there, more or less intact. (An embedded graph was replaced
by a table for example).

Regards,

-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire
England
bh@granby.demon.co.uk