[Papyrus-L] text extract

[Raisa Deber]

On Mar 11, 2005, at 10:13 PM, Estill, Charles wrote:

> Thank you Raisa.
>
> Unfortunately that approach did not work. I saved the document as a 
> rtf file and then did the extraction but the NEW file was unreadable. 
> I am open to suggestions.
No, don't save it as an rtf.  That doesn't work; it seems to keep too 
many of Word's formatting oddities.    Save it as Word 6/95 for 
Windows, which seems to strip out some of the odd new codes which Word 
introduced.  Let me know.

Raisa

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> Chuck
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> On Mar 11, 2005, at 8:56 PM, Estill, Charles wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>>  
>>
>> When I perform a text extract the NEW file has boxes and ASCII type
>> figures in the text and some of the text is missing or formatted
>> wrong. I am using Word 2003. Does anyone know how to fix this.
> Word changed its file format.  Save it in an earlier version of word
> (Word 6.0/95 for Windows should work).  Then text extract.
> Let me know if it works.
> Raisa Deber
>
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>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Chuck
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Raisa Deber, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Director, M-THAC (From Medicare to Home and Community) Research Unit  
(www.m-thac.org)
McMurrich Building, 2nd floor
12 Queen's Park Crescent West
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8  Canada
phone:  (416) 978-8366
fax:  (416) 978-7350
e-mail:  raisa.deber at utoronto.ca