On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Ann Richmond wrote:

> I could email these files to the windows machine and then
> open them with Word PC 2000 , but we always lose formatting,
> pagination, etc. when I do that. And these are 75 page
> documents so redoing that stuff is not a nice prospect.

As far as I know, emailing the files should be exactly the same as
transferring them on the network, it's just a much less efficient
'network'. So the problem you have is one of converting from a mac format
to a windows format and nothing to do with hardware.
Using floppies/cd's are just another type of network in effect, the same
information ought to be travelling.

You're doing Mac Word 4 -> Windows Word 2000. I'm guessing, but it seems
that the problem is the distance in versions between these two. As to a
solution, I've no clue. I would imagine you'd have to research different
conversion softwares to see which works, or try to find a Word version
that is in between the two you have and see if you can 'boost the signal'
by converting via that.

You may just be stuck with the bad conversions :(

A solution could be to make an example document on your Word 4, that is
small but has the necessary differences, then email it to the group to see
if anyone has software that opens it happily.

Hen



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