Microsoft KB Archive/27266

Word: Converting 1.1 WriteNow Documents to Word PSS ID Number: Q27266 Article last modified on 08-17-1993 PSS database name: APpsConV

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MACINTOSH

Summary:

To convert WriteNow 1.1 documents into Microsoft Word for the Macintosh documents, you must use the WriteNow transporter. This file utility converts the files to text-only before they are transported to Word. This means that formatting in the WriteNow document cannot be converted.

The WriteNow transporter application (the Translator) ignores all formatting, font types, font sizes, styles, pictures, headers, and footers. The Translator also converts page break characters into return characters. A tab with a filled character is converted to an ordinary tab character. The procedure for using the Translator application is listed below.

More Information:


 * 1) Click the Translator application icon and choose Open from the Finder’s File menu, or double-click the Translator icon to start it.
 * 2) From the Convert menu, choose WriteNow to Text.
 * 3) The Translator application displays the standard dialog box for specifying which document to open. Select the WriteNow document that you want to convert to text and click Open, or double-click the document name.
 * 4) The standard dialog box for naming a saved document displays, and you can name the document that will contain the results of the conversion. A suggested name already appears, “TX/”, followed by the name of the WriteNow document being converted to a text-only file. You may use this name or choose another name.
 * 5) If necessary, click the Drive button to locate where you want to save the text document. Click Save.
 * 6) Quit the Translator application.
 * 7) Start Microsoft Word.
 * 8) From the File menu, choose Open.
 * 9) Locate the text-only document that was just converted and open it.
 * 10) Reformat the document and save it.

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