Hi,
an odd place to ask, perhaps, but here's the problem

people I know still use word 5 for DOS.
They have hundreds of documents...

Their old printers are wearing out, and they need to BE ABLE to Convert the documents to a newer version of wordprocessor so as to use their new printer.
(they have Two DOS only machines, and one with DOS/win31. (which may be a godsent)

Their latest is a speedmonster running winME (soon to be WIN98se)
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they intend to get at least one other new dedicated machine to...

a; do conversions on without loss of layout.

b; or to be able to just print it when required, in original layout. (which is VERY important)
(on an a newer model printer)

C; burn it to CDr media for archival purposes

they'd also like to be able to use the old template in their newer wordprocessor
(its sort of a officialese form)
Thus, they want to at least try use the template in a new wordprocessor, which means they want to try convert it to the new WP, and then use it for NEW documents.

as you can see, the LAYOUT aka template needs be retained.
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so, they use word 5 for DOS
these old documents were saved with extention.txt
(I never used word 5 for DOS, and did not know that.. I used wordperfect5.1 in them days))

QUESTION
anyone ever done template conversions with office 4.3 ???

or maybe office 95..
(in both cases, I would assume a full install, with all conversion filters)

we already tried wordperfect 2000

MS-office 2000 doesn't print them either


(its a problem with hidden txt which becomes unhidden and gets printed...)

I would think many people here may still use office 4.3 or even word 5 for DOS.

Please enlighten us?
Please?

(you see, word 5 for DOS has a real year 2000 issue, and then there is their hardware which is gonna give the ghost...)

Thanks, Jaak

mods, please don't close this one, I KNOW its posted at 95 forum as well.

these folks really need help.


[This message has been edited by jtdoom (edited 08-10-2001).]