[X Newbies] Thanks for "Expired Trial' help-- now a new one

[Alex]

On Saturday, Jan 24, 2004, at 10:33 Canada/Eastern, Gail Brown wrote:

> A PC colleague, (in an attempt to help me in my 'deprived' Mac 
> universe!), sent me a formatted document in Word Mac 5.x.(doc). Since 
> I use AppleWorks, and not Word for Mac, most of the formatting is lost 
> and some of it opens in gibberish. [...]

Ask him to send it in RTF. Styles and tables won't be preserved, but 
the rest should.

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