Subject: Re: Microsoft Word (.doc) format
From: Scott Bingman (mrphido@prodigy.net)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 12:14:50 CDT
Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Scott Bingman wrote:
>
>> I used to be able to save in .doc format in 0.7.14. What happened, and
>> is it going to be reinstituted by 1.0. I've got a professor that may
>> require that I send things to her in .doc format.
>>
>> Help me please, save me from being sucked back into the Microswift Vortex!
>>
>
> No Problem!
>
>
> Actually we've never been able to save in MS Word format. Dom hopes to
> able to do this eventually. What we can do
> and are continually getting better at is saving in Rich Text Format
> (*.rtf) which is MS own inter-operable format.
>
> For professor who require *.doc files, export your stuff as RTF then
> rename the document to *.doc. MS Word will read it fine. Easy :-)
>
> (Even easier to save as RTF but actually give your filename a *.doc
> extension.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
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Shouldn't this be a requirement for 1.0? At the very least a completely
functional .rtf, headers and all?
Scott Bingman
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