Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!ngc!harry
From: harry@ngc.UUCP (Harry Saal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word Documents in Two Worlds
Summary: MAC=>PC not wonderful, but PC=>MAC a delight!
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Date: 9 Aug 89 23:14:14 GMT
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We have MACs and PCs on the same Ethernet, sharing a Novell file server.
I imagine you should get the same results with a VAX.

If you save a Word doc on the PC, then try and load it on the MAC,
Word asks for the location of the style sheet. It then does a 99% perfect
job of creating the equivalent on the MAC.  The other way is not as good.
You have to explicitly "Save as" an MS-Word format document. When you go
to the PC and load the document, all the formatting has been applied
to the elements of the document, and the styles are gone. So it is a
bit of a one-way path.

We are using Word 4 on the MAC and Word 5 on the PC.