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Subject:Re: Conversion: WP51 to Word 6 From:"Sevigny, Josee" <joseey -at- M3ISYSTEMS -dot- QC -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:45:15 -0400
>On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, marianne lambelet wrote:
>> Has anyone found a somewhat 'painless' way to convert documents from
>> WordPerfect 5.1 to Word 6? Apparently, even though Word 6 claims to
>> be able to convert WP 5.1 documents, there are still plenty of
>> glitches. Also, some of our documents include complex WordPerfect
>> tables.
Just a suggestion, but why not design a WP macro to convert tables to text
with TAB separators, and another one in Word to convert those back to tables?
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Josee Sevigny Technical Writer
joseey -at- m3isystems -dot- qc -dot- ca
M3i Systems Inc., Longueuil, QC
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