Some versions of Word may automatically open (convert) mislabeled
docs to Word--essentially, that's what you're doing. Some versions
may not. Joe is right. You're depending on someone else's app and its
undocumented feature to do your work.
It may work today, and break 6 months from now. Even if I tested this
with MS Word 5, 6, 95, 97, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2004 on both
platforms, I wouldn't trust this feature.
The best I would do on the Mac platform would be to, say, give my
file a type of text and the creator MSWD. It'd open in Word then as a
text file.
--Dave
On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:40 PM, D Prowse wrote:
I'm working on PC (XP) and had the same issue. I did save off
as .doc extension and MSWord was fine. It (Word) in fact prompted
to load a converter to deal with the 'guts.' I accepted and all
seems fine.I was playing with saving text files off in ASCII and a
bunch of other formats. It works. But yes the file is still read/
displayed as text file.
Derek
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