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From: george@swbatl.UUCP (6544)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft WORD doesn't save text files
Message-ID: <1027@swbatl.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 21:33:13 GMT
References: <10013@zodiac.ADS.COM>
Reply-To: george@swbatl.UUCP
Organization: Southwestern Bell Telephone - Advanced Technology Lab
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In article <10013@zodiac.ADS.COM> jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:

>I just installed v 4.0 of Microsoft WORD and noticed that the Save
>As... box doesn't let you set the type of the file you are abou;to
>save.  That means that now you cannot export your Microsoft WORD
>documents to arbitrary formats like macWrite or just plain text.
>Sounds like Microsoft is trying to lock people into using WORD.
>
>Grumble.

Try clicking the "File Format..." button in the "Save As..." dialog
box.  This should get you to a dialog where you can set the file
format to text, MacWrite, RTF, and other MS word processing formats.

 
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