Cross-platform Word file

winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 21:25:41 -0400 (EDT)

Hi, folks--thank you for the list!

Some (relatively) computer illiterates have emailed (as attachments)
WinWord rtf files to me. When my Word 98 reads the files, I can see the
section they've put into color--but the characters are invisible!

I don't have the special font they used--I have the Mac version. Simply
substituting the font (the logical solution) doesn't work. They can't tell
me what WinWord feature/option they've used that would do such a thing.
I've tried all the Word 98 options I can find (including make hidden text
visible). The Help files have no more suggestions.

And I do NOT want to spend an hour on the phone to MS!

In desperation, I saved the file as HTML--which makes the characters
visible--as long as I'm in "online view". Switching back to the other views
makes it go away again.

Anyone know how to get Word 98 to stop being so helpful?

rkm

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