2010/11/14 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > > Any time I have a document on an Apple computer that I know is going to have > to be read on a PC, I save as a "RICH TEXT FORMAT" (.rtf) file. So far, > that's never failed me. > > You can't count on any version of M$ Word actually being readable by any > other version, and especially can't count on any non-M$ Word text editor's > version of word.doc files to be readable by another program ... > double-especially across platforms.
I second that. My dad just had to install an entire computer with a Windows version old enough to support Word 2.0 just so as to salvage some very old yet very important documents. He spent a whole day cursing his way through the conversion... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
