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From: milton@ccu.umanitoba.ca (David Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft Upgrade/Bugfix policy (lack thereof)
Message-ID: <1990May25.051216.5746@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 25 May 90 05:12:16 GMT
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In article <24856@netnews.upenn.edu> jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (George
J.
Jefferson) writes:
>>That would be nice.  I know WriteNow 2.2 _reads_ Word 3.x and 4.0, but I
>>don't know if it will write them.
>
>I expected no graphics, no equations, no style sheets etc.
> - remaining text deleted -
>
>Can the V.2.2 translator be that much better? (ie worth using)
 
I am using the WriteNow 2.2 translator and find it works quite well. There
is one problem relating to the way Word handles headers for the start of a
section (first page only) with a second header for the remainder of the section.
The first page header and the remainder headers get switched sometimes.
From my experience the translator reads both word 3.x and 4.0 format files.
It has converted all of the text and matches all fonts used within the
document and translates them correctly. Except for the exchanged headers
I have found the translator very dependable.