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From: tal@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Question
In-Reply-To: zuena@DPW.COM's message of 4 Jun 91 13:37:12 GMT
Message-ID: <TAL.91Jun11133733@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
Sender: tal@enigma.Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
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Date: 11 Jun 91 13:37:33

In article <3283@esquire.dpw.com> zuena@DPW.COM (Bob Zuena) writes:

In <esquire.3283> zuena@DPW.COM (Bob Zuena) writes:
>  Can a typeset WordPerfect file be easily converted to ASCII and, if so, is
>  decimal alignment of numerical columns maintained?
>
>  Any help would be much appreciated.

I assume you mean "can a document formatted for a proportionally spaced
font be converted to ASCII easily?"

If you have WordPerfect 5.1, the CTROL-F5,t,s (Text I/O, DOS Text, Save)
function will do that for you.  It does a *very* good (but not perfect) job
of maintaining table-looking tables, column-looking columns, etc.

Earlier versions of WP don't do such a good job.  For those you should
set up a printer definition called "standard typewritter" and have it
print to a file.

Tom
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