I found that I had MacWord 6 on the 9600 so I opened the files from the 190 on the 9600 via the network, opened them with Word 6. Then sent them to the iMac via the network. Then opened in Appleworks 5 and saved in Word PC2000 format, copied them to a cd, and opened them happily on the Gateway Solo using Word PC 2000.
Thanks for your suggestions! You were right about the needed boost from Word 6. Ann Allan Atherton wrote: > Ann Richmond <richmond at qx.net> wrote: > > I want to move some old...Mac Word 4e...files from a Powerbook 190 (OS 7.6 > > ) > > temporarily to a Gateway Solo. My husband who is a writer needs to be able > > to > > continue to work on these documents ... Word PC 2000... and then we will be > > moving them back to one of the Macs...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. Any thoughts? > > MacWord4 will probably not save "up" to a high enough PCWord to preserve > formatting when WordPC2000 opens the document. > But then WordPC2000 has to save the document "down" far enough for MacWord4 > to not lose formatting. > Either MacLinkPlusPro13 or WordX might work, going both ways. If you don't > have access to them, you could send me the file and I could send it back as > WordPC2000. Then send it as WordPC2000 and I will send it back as WordMac4. > > Allan Atherton > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
