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From: young@ditsyda.oz (Steven Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: reading MS word docs in SuperCard
Message-ID: <2443@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 8 Feb 90 05:02:17 GMT
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Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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in article <55460@srcsip.UUCP>, thompson@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Thompson) says:
> Does anyone know of a way to read text documents created in MS Word in
> SuperCard.  I want to be able to use all the formatting commands already in
> the documents, such as bold, underline, fonts, and such.  Therefore, I do
> not want to output the document as ASCII text for use as I lose all the
> goodies.  Any help would be very much appreciated. TIA
> Todd Thompson

You could try saving the files as RTF Interchange format (one of the other 
Save as... options) which contains parsable formatting instructions along
with the text.  I have no idea where to get a specification for RTF interchange
but it is certainly readable and would achieve what you are wanting

Hope this is helpful,

Steven Young.