[comp.windows.ms] MS Word

gdkrasse@mcs.drexel.edu ( David Krassen) (03/29/91)

Hello,

 I have been using Microsoft Word for Windows 3.0 and would like to 

be able to read these files on the MAC throught Microsoft Word for the

MAC.  Do you have any suggestions?


Thank you for any assistance.

donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) (03/29/91)

In article <1991Mar28.173050.582@mcs.drexel.edu> gdkrasse@mcs.drexel.edu ( David Krassen) writes:
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>Hello,
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> I have been using Microsoft Word for Windows 3.0 and would like to 
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>be able to read these files on the MAC throught Microsoft Word for the
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>MAC.  Do you have any suggestions?
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>Thank you for any assistance.

	I do this quite often.  To go from Word for windows to MS-Word on
the Mac, save the file in Word for DOS format.  You do this by selecting the
options button of the Save as...dialog box.  Then use Apple file exchange
to ttransfer the file to the Mac.  It should now be usable in MS-Word on the
Mac.  To go the other way.  Save the Mac document as Rich Text Format and
use apple file exchange to write this on a DOS disk which can then be 
imported into Word for Windows using the RTF filter.  This is the  ONLY
way that I foud of reliably transfering between the two systems.

Best regards,
Don Lehn

stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) (03/29/91)

In article <1134@nih-csl.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
>... save the file in Word for DOS format.  You do this by selecting the
>options button of the Save as...dialog box.  Then use Apple file exchange
>to ttransfer the file to the Mac.  It should now be usable in MS-Word on the
>Mac.  To go the other way.  Save the Mac document as Rich Text Format and
>use apple file exchange to write this on a DOS disk which can then be 
>imported into Word for Windows using the RTF filter.  This is the  ONLY
>way that I foud of reliably transfering between the two systems.

I usually find that RTF works best for both W4W-->Mac and Mac-->W4W.
If you save files containing tables in W4W to Word (DOS) format, you
lose the table.  It got converted into columns.

- Stephen