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Subject:Re: Converting XyWrite to Word 97 From:Darren Barefoot <dbarefoot -at- MPS-CANADA -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:06:42 -0800
Good afternoon,
Well, certainly two options that I encountered in a brief search (I had a
similar conundrum with some early WordStar files--fortunately Microsoft had
a free plug-in utility on their site) are:
The second is, I think, a DOS-based freeware product. Good luck. DB.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gottlieb, Lynn [mailto:Lynn -dot- Gottlieb -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM]
Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 4:53 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Converting XyWrite to Word 97
Hi,
Please respond to me directly, not to the list. I will summarize.
I need to add some new information to a 200 page document that was written
in XyWrite. It hasn't been updated since 1985 (not a typo).
Does anyone know a painless way to convert this document from XyWrite 3 to
Word (I'm using Word 97)? The archives didn't have anything about
XyWrite/Word conversions.
Thanks in advance,
Lynn Gottlieb
Sr. Technical Writer
The Boeing Company
lynn -dot- gottlieb -at- boeing -dot- com