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From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Converting Draw Text to WP text
Message-ID: <2737@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Aug 90 14:28:28 GMT
References: <150470@felix.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <150470@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:

>A former instructor created extensive tests in MacDraw. His successor
>wants all of this text to be editable in a word processor. Of course
>pasting the text into a WP doesn't get you anything but a graphic.

Pasting the text into a WP gets a graphic if you select the
object.  However, if you select the text tool in MacDraw and
then select all the text of the object, you can paste into a WP
as text.  I'm assuming, to make this reasonably easy to do,
that the text is contained in relatively few objects.

>Thanks for any suggestions

You're welcome.  Hope it helps.

>Shirley Kehr

Jeremy Roussak