-=> On 06-03-97  09:32, Jeff Ball <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Office 97 -> word 6.0 <=-
 DS> When I want to go from O97 to Word 6.0, a straight save does not
 DS> work ... I do a SAVE AS into Word 6.0/95.
 DS> However -- when I go to read that file into Word 6.0, it is
 DS> converted from Rich Text Format.  Why is it in that and not in Word
 DS> 6.0?? 
 JB> This was intentional, according to Microsoft, because "RTF is a
 JB> universal format that can be read by nearly any word processor,
 JB> even those not made by Microsoft," and "RTF is not susceptible
 JB> to some viruses that can infect 'Word' files."
 JB>
 JB> Microsoft has released free "converter" programs that fix this.
 JB> You can get them from their web site (http://www.microsoft.com).
 Thanks for that info.  I'll take a look at that site.  Do you know if
 there is any loss of info in RTF versus Word 6.0 or 7.0?  How about
 disk space (bigger or less?).
                             dale@ghawk.com
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