Re: converting without losing formatting

[Mimi Gauthier LeBien riverunner@xxxxxxxx]

Leslie,

Thanks for helping me clarify. The version is Xyrwite 3.54. A "normal," is something
I use in Xywrite which is a formatted piece of text I use over and over and insert
into document. I need help doing some of my work. As you know, it is very hard to
find someone who knows xywrite well enough to use it or willing to learn it. They
will do the work in Word, and I want to be able to give them my Xywrite "normal"
(basic skeleten and formatting of a regular report I use in XY) and have them fill it
in with the information and then be able to convert it back, or open it in Xywrite
without losing the formatting. Is this clearer? If not, let me know.

THanks, Mimi

Leslie Bialler wrote:

> Mimi Gauthier LeBien wrote:
> >
> > I'm new to his mail group. I am wondering if a document can be typed in Word 97
> > or Works (even worse) within a Xywrite (I don't think it's 4.0) "normal" and
> > then be opened or converted back to a Xywrite document having saved the
> > formatting "which would have been saved in the normal."
> >
> > I would appreciate thoughts on this.
> >
> > Mimi Gauthier LeBien
>
> Mimi,
>
> I don't quite understand what you're asking here. Interpreting the quote
> marks and your use of the word "normal," I intuit this: you're in Word.
> You want something that can later be read in XyWrite normal. "I don't
> think it's 4.0."
>
> First of all, go to your XyWrite command line, and enter HELP. It will
> return a screen showing you what version of XyWrite you are using. Then
> let us know. Then let us know exactly what you mean by "normal." Do you
> mean XyWrite's "normal" mode vs. its expanded mode, or what?
>
> Once we have these details we should be able to offer some assistance.
>
> --
> Leslie Bialler
> Columbia University Press
> lb136@xxxxxxxx
> > http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup