Word files are essentially compiled RTF files. However there's at least
some kind of documentation on RTF. which makes writing filters much easier.
On 11/14/2010 12:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: David J Brooks
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jeffery Smith
<jsmith...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Ditto on Open Office. Haven't had the urge to use MS Office in years.
>
> Jeffery
Right now, since my PC is not wanting to boot up, i am opening doc's
in either Pages or Test editor on my mac laptop. I can read them but
sometimes i get a lot of strange characters in the doc that i don't
want when i print them out.
I have done doc's in Appleworks and saved them as word do's but the
people i send them to cannot open them
Any time I have a document on an Apple computer that I know is going
to have to be read on a PC, I save as a "RICH TEXT FORMAT" (.rtf)
file. So far, that's never failed me.
You can't count on any version of M$ Word actually being readable by
any other version, and especially can't count on any non-M$ Word text
editor's version of word.doc files to be readable by another program
... double-especially across platforms.
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