Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!george From: george@swbatl.UUCP (6544) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Need Help Reading MacWrite Docs With Word 4.0 Message-ID: <1205@swbatl.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 90 03:02:57 GMT References: <1203@swbatl.UUCP> Reply-To: george@swbatl.UUCP (George Nincehelser 5-6544) Organization: Southwestern Bell Tele. Co. - Advanced Technology Lab - St. Louis Lines: 32 In article esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes: >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 Wouldn't it be nice if the word processing program publishers would put out at little or no charge a "lobotomized" version of their program that would only print or view their product's documents? Might this action increase sales by fostering goodwill amongst potential customers? Could Claris distribute a free MacWrite document viewer/printer ala Public Folder? -- / George D. Nincehelser \ uunet!swbatl!george \ / / Southwestern Bell Telephone \ Phone: (314) 235-6544 \ / / / Advanced Technology Laboratory \ Fax: (314) 235-5797 \ / / / /\ 1010 Pine, St. Louis, MO 63101 \ de asini umbra disceptare \