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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word Problem
Message-ID: <13511@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 89 16:25:29 GMT
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Reply-To: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
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In article <891@mtk.UUCP> marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes:
>I have a Word file that a friend of mine wrote.  We tried to open it on
>my machine with Word 3.01.  We got an error saying "Incorrect file type.
>Open as text only."  It then opened the file and displayed what appears
>to be the formatting characters along with the text.  Changing the
>hidden character switch didn't help.

The original file was created with MSWord 4.0, and MSWord 3.0x will not read
it properly.  What you need to do is open it in Word 4.0 and save it in
Word 3.0x format by clicking on the "File Format..." button in the save
dialog box (so you'll have to do "Save As..." instead of "Save").  Of course,
if you're using some of the new features it won't work properly, and the
fonts might get messed up when you load the document on a different machine.

Why is it exactly that MSWord's font information works this way?  It's been
said that they track fonts by ID instead of by name, but I had heard earlier
that the problem was that they were tracking them using the old font numbering
scheme instead of the new NFNTs (and supposedly Pagemaker does this too).
Anyone know *exactly* what the problem is?

-Ivan

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