In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> Would be useful to go "both ways" - like for example convert a QL >>> Quill_doc in to a M$ Word_doc, and then vice-versa. >>> >> >> Possibly! >> >> I think if converted to HTML it can bbe imported into Word anyway, then >> saved as a Word doc. As I use Open Office, I don't know for sure. I'll >> look into it, but the format of a Word Doc file is the property of >> Microsoft and is not published anywhere. Not only that, it changed >> dramatically between releases of Word - just to keep the guys at OOo on >> their toes :o) >> > >I am not sure about that. Many years ago when I wrote QL-2-PC Transfer I >looked at the possibility of extracting the text from a MS word.doc file and >downloaded the format. It was a massive file which was impossible to >understand and I soon gave the project up. It can't be that difficult ... I have a freeware program on RISC OS called appropriately enough "AntiWord". Which takes any M$ Word file and converts it in to plain text or HTML. Very useful it has proved to be. It seems to cope with any version of a Word.doc too. Anyway, with QPC2 it is easy to copy over a Quill_doc into a Quill.doc or a plain text file to the DOS C: Drive, and import it in to M$ Word. The version of M$ Word that I have, dated 2002, has a file converter that requests how to treat imported formats. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
