Thank you, Naomi and CPH; Your patience in dealing with underfed PC users as myself is extraordinary.
When you say, " Word uses a 'doc' file type, and files using that format have a '.doc' extension after the file name given by the user", this means to me that I may treat one "doc" as another ".doc". I suppose I am treating 'fred' like 'frank'? Does it really make any difference?
Otherwise, I am guessing what was at the heart of CPH's admonition was NOT to simply erase the .doc off the thend of a "string". Is that correct? Rather, one should save the whole file through the Save As function, using the "Save as type" pull down menu list of associations? I suppose this sends changes back through Registry while merely erasing .doc and adding .swx does not? The latter merely leaves an unidentifiable sxptz on the page?
So, in a perfect world, should the "Save as type" really be "Save as file type"?
If I now understand CPH's original meaning, it makes no difference that I learned to do this long ago through triala nd error; my problem is a failure to understand the word associations -- which is why I can't make head or tails of the GTK site, and they are doing stuff I need to understand.
Thanks for your kind willingness to help .......................... Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
