Msg: Re: Converting files to RTF?

Another solution if you don't have heavy formatting and care more about content than font, indents, etc.

Conversion filters in Word work. Look for convert from "MS-DOS text", as Xy is pure ASCII. I think you have to check preferences to make sure when you attempt to open a file that word asks you what you are converting from.

You will have to change underline (Italics) and bold.

Word will automatically reformat words or phrases in _italics_ and *bold*.

Xy II is slightly different from XY IV, but what I do from IV is either in Xy or in Word change and to _; and and to * .

Word will then change words in surrounded by _ to italics, and * to bold. (Format menu, Autoformat).

When I convert (always one file at a time). I create an empty document in Word with the layout that I want. Then in a second window, open the Xy file, converting from "MS-DOS text". I strip out all the formatting (except for italics and bold), select all, and paste as unformatted text into the empty Word document. Then convert italics and bold.

This does mean you have to open and manually convert every file. It's actually easier to convert the files using the Hungarian filters in DOS (the solution Carl suggested).

From: M.W. Poirier
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 1:30:02 PM
Subject: Re: Converting files to RTF?

I do not know if this is a worthy suggestion or not, but here it is:

1. Get XY4.018 from the same site where you got the coversion filters.
1a. Install XY4.018
2. Upload your XY2 files to XY4. (This is where I may be suggesting
something that is not going to work. XY2 may not be compatible
with XY4. Carl will know this.)
3. Use the conversion filters that you got form the XY site.
3a. Load one of your documents.
4. Save the document as RTF.
5. Bring the RTF document(s) into MSWord.
6. Save as a MSWord document.

Maben W. Poirier

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> I've got a Windows 95 computer. I don't know whether I have the corresponding version of /Word/ or whether I was using /WordPerfect/ at that time. I probably has an Adobe Reader, but I don't know anything about Adobe utilities. I'll have to dust off the old girl and see what she's got.
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> On 7/8/2010 11:59 AM, Nicholas Clifford wrote:
>> This probably won't be much help, but it's precisely for problems like this that I keep an ancient copy of Word 95 on my computer, as well as an equally ancient copy of Adobe File Utilities 1.0, which has a bunch of conversion utilities on it, including not only Xy II and III, but Signature (works well for Xy IV), to say nothing of Wordstar and others. If you can somehow lay your hands on a copy of the Adobe, you'll find it works OK, not great, but OK.
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>> Nicholas Clifford
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