Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-11-02 Thread spellberg_robert
thanks to everyone for their assistance. thanks, especially, for reports of personal satisfaction with a particular solution. it appears, now, that i had found everything that there is to be found, currently. without the feedback, however, i would not know that. i will give these ideas

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-11-01 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting spellberg_robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i finally ran into a situation where my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. i never bought office. i have a twelve_year_old version of wordperfect from [ at that time ] novell that still works just fine [ i first used wordperfect in

extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread spellberg_robert
greetings --- i finally ran into a situation where my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. i never bought office. i have a twelve_year_old version of wordperfect from [ at that time ] novell that still works just fine [ i first used wordperfect in the early 1980's; why change ?

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:29:21 + spellberg_robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greetings --- i finally ran into a situation where my existing approaces are no longer satisfactory. clip is this abiword one of them or do i seek something else ? Aloha Rob I have been using abiword for

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, spellberg_robert wrote: my application is to exchange text files, by e_mail, with someone who thinks ms products are the be_all and end_all i am not looking for something wonderful, just reasonably competent and reasonably current. if, in addition to my desired

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, if I get you right, you just need something like Abiword or KOffice to read or write Wrod files. You also could use OpenOffice. I think that AbiWord is the smallest program with the most limitations and OpenOffice is the largest program with the least limitations. Install AbiWord and