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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 3.2 -> Word 4.0 Question
Keywords: MS Word
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.055710.24868@world.std.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 05:57:10 GMT
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jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) writes:

>You can open a word 3.x doc into word 4.0, with (most) style
>information intact.  'layout' things (columns etc.) will probably
>not translate nicely.

Actually, side-by-side columns will translate very nicely, and are fully
editable until you convert them into a real Word 4 table (although there's
no going back to side-by-side once you do).

Boris Levitin
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