Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: converting
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.220628.29385@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <71234@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <90353.145223LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 90 22:06:28 GMT

>1) Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1 does convert to and from 5.0 and 5.1 for me.
>2) The file format for 5.0 and 5.1 are supposed to be identical.

Item 2 is DEFINATELY WRONG. 5.1 has a number of items that simply will 
not be available when saved into a WP5.0 file. Tables is one thing 
that does not make the grade... Equations sort of make it in that they
get converted to a graphic box of some form. SPecial characters have some
problems too but I can't tell you which ones. 

Text only files may work properly, but anything exotic is going to
give you problems.