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Started by Dave Wilson
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
Wordperfect on macs and PC interchange
Author: Dave Wilson
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
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A friend is about to strat work on a project involving several others who all use Wordperfect in a variety of PC DOS and Windows versions. Neither of us have ever used WP, and she would prefer to use her mac (performa 5500) to do most of the work. IF she buys a copy of the latest WP for mac (3.5?) has anyone direct experience of interchanging these with the PC versions? She will clearly have to involve herslef with converting between earlier WP versions, but are the current versions very interchangeable or are there any problems she should foresee. The budget would certainly allow her to buy a PC, but she would prefer not to. She could if necessary do a final formatting job on a PC once the job is done. I'd be grateful for some help on this one. Corel's website does not go into great detail but merely claims that 3.5 can handle WP version 7 for Windows 95. I am inclined to trust this, but reall experience may suggest that it is not so easy! thanks, Dave A letter always arrives at Dave@zizek.demon.co.uk its destination D.Wilson@mmu.ac.uk J Lacan http://s13a.math.aca.mmu.ac.uk
Re: Wordperfect on macs and PC interchange
Author: Paul Womar
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
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Dave Wilson <Dave@zizek.demon.co.uk> wrote: > A friend is about to strat work on a project involving several others who > all use Wordperfect in a variety of PC DOS and Windows versions. > Neither of us have ever used WP, and she would prefer to use her mac > (performa 5500) to do most of the work. > She could if necessary do a final formatting job on a PC once the job is > done. That is probably the most important thing, I suspect you already have a copy of a Word Proceesor already, it will almost certainly have the ability to export in RTF (Rich Text) which virtually any Word processor will read, I would be astonished if WP didn't. It preserves the majority of the formatting and it would probably need only minor re-working on the PC (mostly to do with fonts I expect). Also many programs can export in WP format, see what options your word processor has available. > I'd be grateful for some help on this one. Corel's website does not go into > great detail but merely claims that 3.5 can handle WP version 7 for Windows > 95. I am inclined to trust this, but reall experience may suggest that it > is not so easy! If when you buy it, specifically state what you need it for you should be protected under consumer law. The sale of goods act 1979 states that any goods sold must be of satifactory quality and be suitable for any purpose specified by the buyer.
Re: Wordperfect on macs and PC interchange
Author: Peter Ceresole
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00
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In article <B0A35F40966830C01@zizek.demon.co.uk>, Dave@zizek.demon.co.uk (Dave Wilson) wrote: >I'd be grateful for some help on this one. Corel's website does not go into >great detail but merely claims that 3.5 can handle WP version 7 for Windows >95. I am inclined to trust this, but reall experience may suggest that it >is not so easy! My wife uses WP 6 for Windows on a Tosh and I use WP 3.5 on a Mac; I have found no trouble in interchanging files between these. Sorry- no experience with WP 7. I find WP 3.5 on the Mac to be a *very* nice program to use- very much better than WP on the PC. It also handles Word files very well (with a few exceptions involving fully tabled documents with footers). The only exception to this is (of course) Word 7 which breaks the (otherwise very good) filter. But for Word 7 all it requires is an old copy of Word 5.1 for the Mac to help with the conversion. -- Peter
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