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Subject:Re: Converting Word fields From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:11:48 -0500
At 01:05 PM 6/25/99 -0700, Sally Yeo wrote:
>Hi folks-
>
>Does anyone know if it is possible to convert all the fields in a Word
>(Office 97) doc to text? If so, how?
Select the entire document, and press Ctrl-Shift-F9. The term Word uses
for this, if you want to check the documentation, is "unlink".
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"UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are."
Beth Friedman
bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
