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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 09:42:37 EST
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- From: don spinelli <DSPINEL@WAYNEST1.BITNET>
- Subject: converting NB files to Microsoft word for the Mac
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
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- I am new subscriber to NB so please excuse me if this problem has been dealt
- with in the past. I must also say that my computer knowledge is based on
- wordprocessing only using NB so I anybody can be of help, I am hoping it will
- not have to get too technical. In a moment of anger at NB, I decided to
- chuck the whole thing and switch to a Mac for a long project. The publisher
- requires camera-ready copy and I just decided the Mac would be a better tool fo
- for that rather than my PC. Here is my problem: I have some 500 pages in three
- large files written in French. I would like to convert these to microsoft
- word for the mac. My directions for the Apple Exchanger tell me to convert
- the NB files to DCA and then using the Apple Exchanger convert those to DCA-RFT
- which I can then convert to Microsoft Word for the Mac. I have had success on
- only one small file of about three pages. The other big ones blow up between
- the NB-DCA and the end of the DCA-RFT conversion process. A bomb literally
- comes on the screen and says after about 90% conversion that I have fallen
- into a heap. The people in my computer center are unable to help since not
- one uses NB, and they all maintain the problem is with the NB-DCA files.
- Any help to resolve this problem would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure
- this is a problem for the open forum but it makes no difference if anybody
- wants to discuss it there.My e-mail address is Dspinel@waynest1.edu.
-