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- From: rwb00@avon.as (Robert W Beveridge)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
- Message-ID: <cc1O02Wl2fvb01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:32:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.231401.18617@iti.org>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- In article 18617@iti.org, cdj@iti.org (Chris D. Jennings) writes:
- >
- >I am not currently a Word user or a Windows user. I am beginning to
- >work with some people who use Macs (running Word) exclusively, and I
- >want to be able to give them disks that they can read without losing
- >all the text formatting. Someone told me that this is possible by
- >saving a file to disk from W4W and then simply opening the file in
- >Word for the Mac. Can anyone tell me whether this is true, and if
- >not, what is the easiest way to get a file from a PC into Word for
- >the Mac without losing much text formatting?
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >- Chris (cdj@hela.iti.org)
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- I go back and forth between Word on a mac and Word for Windows by saving the file
- in RTF format, and using Apple File Exchange to read/write DOS disks. It works
- fine - though I haven't tried it with any really complicated formating...
-