Re: converting Xywrite text files en masse to Word?

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Art,

Your best bet would be to buy Nota Bene for Windows. It will read your XyWrite
files w/o difficulty, and because of its filters, it will easily convert them to
word.

You can also order a set of filters made by Wordport. These are the filters that,
I believe, are bundled with Nota Bene.

By the way: The process you describe below (and it's hard to verify this for sure
w/o seeing the program the expert prepared) is probably not, in fact, creating a
Word file at all, but merely a text file that loads in Word because of the .doc
extension.

What happens to boldface and italics? If they disappear these are not Word files.



ArtL7@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Dear Xyrite mavens: I know how I currently convert, one file at a time,
> Xywrite to Word for use by editors and myself later at other computers: I
> type in a macro command (I think it's called) that strips out the specialized
> symbols in Xywrite (the macro command has the instruction lp e-mail.prn, and
> it was prepared for me by an expert, presumably loads in a macro filed called
> "e-mail.prn"). And then I send from my Xywrite directory that file to
> mydocuments folder the file, renamed with .doc suffix. Presto: I have a Word
> document. But how do I do that for hundreds of important files I have on
> Xywrite? I'm using Xywrite III+, the DOS version. But in the new computers
> you buy today, there's no allowance for an MS-DOS program, so how can I
> convert hundreds of selected text files to Word and strip out the Xywrite
> symbols that make Xywrite files virtually unreadable in Word? I don't have
> much in the way of computer skills myself, so I want to know if there's a
> prexisting program out there that does that , or is there a file on a Xywrite
> website that you can download, or what any of you would suggest? Thanks, Art.

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