On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Bruce Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi g-listers
> 
> My PhD thesis dates from 1996 and was created in MS Word 4 or 5. I've just 
> had reason to look at this ancient history but can't do so satisfactorily. It 
> doesn't open in my current version of Word (mac:2011). It will open in 
> TextEdit: the text appears to be complete, as far as I can see, but the 
> illustrations and indices to the footnotes (the references*) are gone, and 
> there's a load of unreadable stuff following the text. 


Try LibreOffice on either of the two 10.8 macs. 
<http://fridrich.blogspot.com/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html>


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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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