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Subject:Re: word to ascii/chopped liver From:Linda Sherman <linsherm -at- GTE -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:19:13 -0500
Lin Farley wrote:
>
> I am pulling my hair out on this one.
>
> What are the tricks to saving a word doc into ascii text without
> formatting going all to hell??
>
> Notepad is not doing it. It looks great in Notepad. Prints out like chopped
> liver.
ASCII text has no formatting capability beyond tabs, line breaks, and
page breaks. Notepad has no formatting capability beyond what ASCII
offers, and you can't even set your own tabstops in Notepad.
Notepad basically does a draft print of ASCII files. Nine times out of
ten, if not 99 times out of 100, this means that the hardcopy isn't
going to look exactly like it did on the screen, because the printer
and/or its driver uses a default font and tabstops.
Use WordPad or Write. Or Word. If you want to control formatting, you've
got to use a tool that supports it.
Lin
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Linda K. Sherman <linsherm -at- gte -dot- net>
Computer programming, technical writing, web development
phone: 1-727-842-6756 fax: 1-727-842-6853
