On 10/12/2012 3:44 AM, Chris Despopoulos wrote: > What MIF wash actually does is simply ignore any garbage in the file. > MIF is pretty much a text representation of the binary format. But MIF > interpretation is loose, so if there's any garbage in there, saving as > MIF *might* write the garbage out, but it will certainly not read it. > In this case, there most likely was something else in that string that > caused it to break into two MIF string statements. However, it was a > character that the MIF interpreter doesn't understand. So writing out > to MIF triggers two string statements, but the cause of the string break > doesn't make it into the MIF file. Then on read, since there's nothing > there to warrant two strings, the interpreter turns it into a single > string.
Steve, Sounds like you might be able to identify the mystery character by opening the Word/RTF source file in a hex editor. It would satisfy curiosity, if nothing else! s. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com