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From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word V4.0 docs --> MacWrite II
Message-ID: <11303@claris.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 05:43:32 GMT
References: <16407@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <16407@shlump.nac.dec.com>, by mason@habs11.enet.dec.com (Gary Mason):
> I have a file produced by someone using Microsoft Word Version 4.0 for the 
> Macintosh.  I have two versions - "standard" saved document, and RTF.  I have 
> tried importing them into MacWrite Version 1.1(?...the latest one), with 
> interesting results.  I have not compared the results on paper, but on screen, 
> they look very much alike, and not anything like the real thing.  The document 
> is basically a grid of varying sized subgrids (it is used for a data logging 
> application).  There are a lot of lines forming boxes - almost like an inspired
> spreadsheet user's exercise. What I get from MacWrite is some text, some check
> boxes, some short lines, etc.  There IS some formatting info there - bold, etc.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue here?
> 
> Thanks...Gary
> mason@habs11.enet.dec.com
Write II does not do tables.  Word does.  Any tables you had
in your Word document gets mangled when you open it in MacWrite II.
Tables are the only thing I EVER use Word for.

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