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From: kblackne@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Ken Blackney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word for Windows ---> Word for Mac
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.150950.20789@king.mcs.drexel.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 15:09:50 GMT
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>In article <1991Jan6.025625.18789@dmntor.UUCP> djm@dmntor.UUCP (Dave McKellar @ Digital Media Networks) writes:
>>I saved a Word for Windows file "normal" style and then tried
>to open it with Word for the Mac.  Word for Mac opened it BUT
>didn't GET that it was a document - ie there were tons of
>funny characters where formatting should have been.
>
>So what's the trick?  It must be possible to transfer documents
>between the two programs ... how ?
>
>My versions: Word for Windows 1.0 (c) 1989
>	     Word for Mac     4.0 April 10, 1989
>	    
>(If you post a reply, please e-mail me too, thanks)
>-- 
>David McKellar     {dciem,contact,freddy,geac}!dmntor!djm

I move files from MacWord to WinWord all the time.  If you are using WinWord 
1.0 you will need to save the file in DosWord or RTF formats.  WinWord 1.0
does not read MacWord 4.0 normal files.  The better thing to do is to upgrade
to WinWord 1.1 (My upgrade cost $7.50 plus $2.50 S&H.)

WinWord 1.1 reads MacWord 4.0 files.  I do have some problems with font names
so I wrote a macro that converts from Adobe PostScript fonts to BitStream
FaceLife fonts and one for the reverse action.  If you want it, e-mail me.

All of the things you have ready about fields not converting are, unfortunatly,
true.  All we can hope is that MacWord 5.0 (when?) will come up to speed with
WinWord 1.1.

Ken

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Ken Blackney            Computing Resource Group             Drexel University