Re: Conversion to/from MS Word

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

TBaehr@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I wouldn't bet the rent on having styles transfer back and forth *as styles*,
> given what I remember from working with the filters many years ago and the
> fact that styles are implemented very differently from word processor to word
> processor. Try doing a save-as from Xy to WordPerfect 4.2 and see if your
> colleague can convert the file into Word. WPerf seems to preserve a lot of Xy
> information, sometimes even including fonts.

Exactly right!

> Might work in the other direction
> too. Also, in either direction, try RTF as your common denominator--it's
> become a kind of de-facto universal format for many word processors.
>

Nope. That does not preserve the styles.

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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