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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word -> ASCII Question
Keywords: Loses formatting
Message-ID: <12510@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 14 Jul 89 00:45:32 GMT
References: <1379@novavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
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Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <1379@novavax.UUCP> cheri@novavax.UUCP (Cheri Gumm Ozen) writes:
>Question:  Is there a way to save a document prepared on Microsoft
>Word into ASCII *and* still retain the formatting?  She has an
>assignment that will be sent to someone who doesn't have a Mac.

  ASCII format by Definition doesn't contain any formatting, it is just the
raw text.  :-(

  What your friend needs to do is find out what Word Processing program is
going to be used on the other end and see if one of Words other formats can
be read/converted by the word processor on the other end.

  For example if both people are using the newer versions of MS Word, 1 on
a Mac, and the other on a PC, Word doesn't really care who created it and
does a fairly good job of allowing the exchange to take place with formatting
intacked.

  Hope this helps.
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