Hello David,
On (30 Dec 97) cybercadet David Chessler wrote to Phil Heberer...
 DC> Still, I've had far LESS problems with WordPerfect in finding
 DC> common formats than I have with Word97.
 DC> That is also my experience, although dropping from WP 8.0 to 5.1
 DC> in a file with paragraph numbering results in putting an "outline
 DC> on" code that I have to find and delete. I guess there are other
 DC> incompatibilities. We had a problem with tables in a large
 DC> document. It was crashing 7.0 regularly--you could work on only a
 DC> page at a time, then save, because it would crash again. I had it
 DC> sent to me to load into 8.0, and had the same problem, at about
 DC> the same place. So I saved it in 5.1 and then reimported it. That
 DC> worked. 5.1 supported all the codes we were actually using, and
 DC> the saving got rid of the bad code.
I used to have a macro in WP6.0b for DOS that I would need to use
occasionally to clean up a file. It wasn't mine, but one that one of
the gurus here posted quite some time back. I'll see if I still have it
and run it through here again for general info. Perhaps something in
that might be some code you could use to deal with the WP 7/8 problems
as well.
 DC> Thank goodness for the internet. I'm in Maryland and my
 DC> collaborator was in Michigan--say 700 miles apart--and we
 DC> transfered large files in minutes.
Amen! I live in Texas, and some of MY collaborators might be in Germany
or Japan! About the only feature I've seen in WP8 that I don't have now
in my version of WP7 is the ability to save revisions automatically.
That sould sure be handy, as just dealing with the date-stamp on files
isn't always a good indicator.
 DC> Could be. I haven't used 7.0 or 8.0 very much, and I have
 DC> scarcely used Word at all. I continue to use 5.1 and expect to do
 DC> so until I have to do things that can't be done in 5.1. One thing
 DC> is importing new fonts. I don't use a lot of fonts, but if that
 DC> were to change, I would change, because working the ptr.exe
 DC> program in WP 5.1 to move and construct fonts is a major pain
 DC> (and I have a printed copy of the manual for that program).
Actually, one of the things that I liked in WP6.0b for DOS was the
ability to use TrueType fonts. I don't use a great many fonts, but
could add or delete fonts as the need arose.
 DC> >     tri-focal age, a 21" monitor is a Godsend! 
 DC> And if you were using the DOS version, it would be the equivalent
 DC> of a 23 inch monitor under windows. :-)
That's true, but at least now I can do a full page preview and be able
to read it!  That's how I usually proofread my documents now. ;)
Cheers,
Phil
... Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups.
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