Excellent reminder about MacLink Plus. I had a couple of customers recently with corrupted Excel spreadsheets, which she couldn't open in Windows and I couldn't open on my Mac in Excel. I tried opening the spreadsheet in AppleWorks, MacLink Plus translated it for me automatically, and surprise-surprise, it opened. Did a save-as to Excel again, and was able to open the file in Excel. Now, I'm not going to pretend that all the formulas, macros and special Excel gadgets were translated, but from what I could tell, all the original data was intact.
In an organization that is quickly moving from Mac to Windows, it was a good argument to let me keep at least one Mac around! Bryan On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:17 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Apple has not only been releasing new hardware, but they have also > been tossing out new versions of their apps (for example iTunes has > been updated again) Check your SUPP over the next few days for new > versions of things. > > On the the Write Now question? Also keep in mind that MacLink Plus > had the ability to translate a few bazillion file kinds to a few > bazillon other kinds of files, so your friend should be able to get > something that will work. > > > Jerry > > [trying very hard not to directly ask 'why, with all of the new > Apple hardware (both low and high end that is) coming out, why make > a move from the superior Mac SE to the other side?']. > > On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > > >> On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Nelsn Helm asked: >> >> >> >>>> Does anyone have suggestions for how to get documents that are >>>> in WriteNow on an Macintosh SE (from 1987) off of that computer >>>> and translated into Word and onto a PC? Is this completely >>>> hopeless? I have years and years of writing on it -- a lot of >>>> short stories, a few aborted novels, etc. -- for some reason I >>>> stubbornly kept writing fiction on the Macintosh SE because I >>>> loved working on it. I used to work somewhere that had Apple >>>> computers that could translate the WriteNow program into Word, >>>> but that was years ago. Now the Apple computers where I work >>>> don't even take disks. If it is possible for me to somehow >>>> download the entire contents of the Macintosh SE onto one of the >>>> Apples at work and then convert, I could do that. >>>> >>>> >> >> WriteNow was a great word processor. I used it for quite a while. >> When I finally gave it up, I used the feature in WriteNow to save >> in RTF (rich text) format. This preserves most of the formatting >> and can be imported into any version of Word because that's what >> Microsoft designed RTF to do. >> > > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure > if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
