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From: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Word
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.033715.2874@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 03:37:15 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <1134@nih-csl.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
>... save the file in Word for DOS format.  You do this by selecting the
>options button of the Save as...dialog box.  Then use Apple file exchange
>to ttransfer the file to the Mac.  It should now be usable in MS-Word on the
>Mac.  To go the other way.  Save the Mac document as Rich Text Format and
>use apple file exchange to write this on a DOS disk which can then be 
>imported into Word for Windows using the RTF filter.  This is the  ONLY
>way that I foud of reliably transfering between the two systems.

I usually find that RTF works best for both W4W-->Mac and Mac-->W4W.
If you save files containing tables in W4W to Word (DOS) format, you
lose the table.  It got converted into columns.

- Stephen