Re: Converting Ventura

["Terry L. Johnson" <tlj -at- MM -dot- COM>]

Martyn--

Would you be willing to share the Word macro you used to take out the
Ventura codes? I have a client who would kiss your feet for something like that.

--Terry

At 04:28 PM 7/4/96 PDT, you wrote:
>>Beth (bstaat -at- artisoft -dot- com) wrote:
>>>      Does anyone know if it's possible to convert a document written in
>>>      Ventura to _ANYTHING_ else? Even ASCII would be fine!
>>
>Beth, I have now forgotten what you want to convert TO, but anyway... I
>needed to convert Ventura to Word 6. I saved the file as plain text, loaded
>it into Word, and wrote a macro to read the codes and strip them out, and
>then apply (predefined) styles to the results - the result was 99% OK - only
>a few tables went wrong (of course you will prbably have to regarb your
>bitmaps, if any)

>Martyn Thirlway
>thirlwaym -at- usoft -dot- nl

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