Re: [NTLK] MS Word---> NewtWorks? And Word's meta data.

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 10:11:53 PDT


On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:

>
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Dan wrote:
>
>> Yes but only older versions using NCU (available). Say Word 97 or
>> earlier.
>> You might be able to advoid that if you export it to RTF then without
>> any
>> editing import it into the Newton. You should also be able to save to
>> older
>> formats of Word, however the formatting might change if you use newer
>> tools
>> than the older format can support.
>
> If you're using OS X 10.3 you can just open them in TextEdit and save
> them as RTF and put them on your Newt
>
> To transform them back into Word documents when you're done do the
> reverse
>
> Incredibly handy and seems to handle most of the latest files from Word
>
Actually I have been shocked by how well this works! Pretty fast also!

I have sooo many customers who complain about the fact that they don't
want to pay for word, but need to open word documents. This seems to
serve that purpose white nicely.

Office 2004 next month though, I bet MS will figure out a way to break
this...

Marty

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