Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ames!amdahl!esf00 From: esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Need Help Reading MacWrite Docs With Word 4.0 Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 90 01:30:43 GMT References: <1203@swbatl.UUCP> Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) Organization: The Beige Building Under the Flight Path Lines: 48 In article <1203@swbatl.UUCP> george@swbatl.UUCP (6544) writes: > the margins and page breaks are messed up. I don't >think the footers are quite right, either. Fonts might be messed up >to. I've tried messing with the above items, but I can't seem to get >it right. > >Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? My Word manual doesn't seem >to be of much help since the index only shows an entry on saving >MacWrite documents. > Mumble. I've hit the same problems -- mostly in attempting to translate the Macintosh Technical Notes to Word printable. I had a chat with a tech rep from Microsoft about the issue back when Word 3.02 was current. In summary -- o character handling is just *slightly* different in Word than in anything else. Use of clover-I in Word as an way to see what your page looks like as you twiddle is my recommendation. o paragraphs that overflow the right margin are wrapped in Word, but not in MW -- solution: go in and move the right margin on the offending paragraph out to the edge of the page. o Word uses font numbers, not names. If you've changed the numbers with FontHarmony or manual twiddling, Word just plain will not like you. Flame Microsoft .... :-) o Automatic page numbers in places other than the right edge of the footer line are not specifieable in the MW interchange format -- move it yourself to the proper spot. In summary, it's not hard, but it's a bother. I've probably wasted more hours fixing stuff so that Word will format it nicely than a copy of MW (or even MW II) would have cost me, but I persist. If you really want a set of laser-printed Macintosh Technical Notes that look the way the crew at Apple intended, and you don't want to spring for MacWrite, order them from APDA. Slower than the net, but no formatting problems. :-) -- Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00 [the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.] [the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.]