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Subject:Re: Rekeying text From:Mercedes Abels <maa5906 -at- GRIFFON -dot- MWSC -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:32:53 -0600
We brought documents up from PageMaker 3.2 to 4.0 then to 5.0 on the Mac
and several pages were lost somewhere int he transition. All those pages
had to be rekeyed from hard copy.
Marci Abels
On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Kat Nagel/MasterWork wrote:
> Chet replied to Bob,
> >>
> >>> Why would you ever need to rekey information going from one
> >>> system to another? Sounds like unnecessary work to me.
> I still don't see the need for rekeying everything. ReFORMATTING, yes ---
> and that -can- be a pain. But, surely, all these systems/applications
> can export a simple text file, can't they? And they can all (even from
> Macs) print those text files to a DOS-formatted disk. And they can all
> import those text files from DOS format disks into their applications. So
> why would you need to -rekey- all the text?
