[Papyrus-L] Sigh...

[Jean Welter]

Thanks Peter,
In general that would work for a simple document, but this particular one 
contains a bunch of forms, drop down lists, tables and macros, all of which 
seem not to be backwards compatible with W97. I.e. if you save as W97, the 
don't work properly anymore, even if you reopen in XP. I suppose this is a 
Microsoft problem rather than Papyrus', but the effect is the same. Running 
Pap on the file in it's native format introduces random pages of rectangles 
everywhere. Now I suppose one could dissect out the plain text portions, 
run Pap, and then reassemble the document. In my spare time, maybe ...

Looked at Endnote on a friend's computer last night. Expensive, 25MB of 
disk space just for the program files, with a tiny database it used 8MB of 
ram. Data entry looks tedious.

Jean
<jfw2 at po.cwru.edu>

At 07:58 8/28/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear Jean,
>
>Just do a "save as" within XP and save the file in a version that Papyrus 
>does not mangle. I'm sure even M$ managed to put this feature into their 
>latest version. I'm pretty sure they got the "backwards compatible" hint 
>with Word 97.
>
>Peter.