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Re: Help ! How to read Adobe pagemaker files in MS Word ?
Subject:Re: Help ! How to read Adobe pagemaker files in MS Word ? From:Colonel Panic <colonel_panic -at- REMOVE -dot- NYM -dot- ALIAS -dot- NET> Date:Sun, 4 May 1997 23:58:28 GMT
On Sun, 04 May 1997 09:37:24 -0700, Semyon D. Savransky offered this:
>
>Hi All,
>A friend of my from Russia sent me files in pagemaker formats pm4 and
>pm5. How can I read text from these files in MS-Word95 ?
>Please respond directly to my e-mail.
>Thanks
>Semyon
One way:
Rename the files from *.pm5 to *.txt. Open a new document in Word and go to
Insert/File... and select the *.txt file. Select 'Convert from Text Only.'
You'll get a lot of unreadable format crap, but you'll also get the plain
text, which you can save.
You can also read the texty in any document using a hex editor or even a text
editor like Notepad or write.
-jim
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