Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Word format Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 89 05:15:55 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 15 > Where can I get info on the format of MSoft Word files? You are going to have a very difficult time doing so-- You can try MicroSoft, but it is doubtful that that will help. Give Aldus and Ashton-Tate a call-- both have worked with the Word format (PageMaker and FullWrite deal with it), and they may have something they can send. An example of the lock-up on formats that Microsoft has: For the publishers of the, as yet unreleased, _Wingz_ spreadsheet package to be able to import Excel 'sheets, they hired a hacker/guru to dissasemble Microsoft's code to figure out the format of the Excel documents. They were able to do it, but Microsoft never lifted a finger to help in any way... b.bum wb1j+_@andrew.cmu.edu