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From: mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: PageMaker/Word Italics
Message-ID: <sZCOEV_00WBL40cHVm@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 09:49:21 GMT
Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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This is a problem I've been having for as long as I've used PageMaker. 
Occasionaly, text that is specified as italic in Word will import as:

a) italic (most common, but that's what you'd expect :-)
b) plain (uncommon but annoying)
c) mixed plain and italic (usually the first few characters of an
italicized word or sentence, extremely annoying and ugly to boot)

I haven't been able to discern a pattern, and I've been using PM/Word
for a couple of years now.  Does anyone know the reason for this
two-facedness, or (heaven forbid) a solution?

thanx,
-mike