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From: Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MS Word on Macintosh to MS Word on PC
Message-ID: <91109.161124Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 20:11:24 GMT
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As pointed out in another post, you can simply use the Save As feature of
Word on the Mac to save a copy that can be transferred to Word on the PC.
However, when I do this, I lose things like smart quotes and other non-
standard characters like em-dash, etc.

Do any of the commercial translation packages make the process of dealing
with these non-standard ascii characters more elegant? Right now I have to
do a manual change of space" to appropriate quote character and so on. (OK,
so I have macros to do most of this, but I still have to run the macros.)

This would make transferring files between my Mac and MS-DOS notebook a lot
more fun, well, at least easy. :)

[BTW, we may be having problems with our posts from Penn State. If anyone
who reads this who is NOT getting their feed from CUNYVM could drop me a note,
I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.]

Scott D. Camp   Q8N@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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