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From: xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird)
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Subject: Re: MS Word problem with indentation and ascii files
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.222452.10576@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 22:24:52 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.191422.5384@portia.Stanford.EDU> whenry@lindy.stanford.edu (homo obsolescensis) writes:
>When you create a text that involves indentation (either by setting
>the ruler, or command-shift N|T|etc) and then SAVE AS TEXT ONLY (with
>or without line breaks), word removes all the indentation from the
>file.  Is there no way save a file as ascii and retain at least the
>simpler formatting.  Alternately, is there any way to PRINT to file
>and if so, would that do the trick?

You can insert a tab that will carry through the text only conversion.
A tab is a character, setting the indent via the ruler is a formatting
change, which, like all formatting, will be stripped out on a text
only save.

>I did RTFM with no luck (TFI(index), btw reaks).





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