The old filter should be able to read and write the old Dos Word format,
though the registry patch supplied only allows for the document to be read.
To persuade it to save you need also the following registry patch:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\ Word\Text
Converters\Import\DOSWord]
"Name"="Word for DOS"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft
Shared\\TextConv\\Doswrd32.CNV"
"Extensions"="doc"
The save routine provides for the option to save style sheets, I could not
persuade this to work, but guess it may be path related as DOS did not allow
the long pathnames common with Windows. You will need to expertinent.
Note that the patches are for Word 2003. I have not tested this filter with
Word 2007 (which would require its own set of registry entries)
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
CyberTaz wrote:
Talk about your flashbacks :-) There is a filter available from MVP
Graham Mayor's site which may help you, but I honestly don't know if
it goes back that far or not - even if it does it may only support
read capability for v.2 without being able to write in that format:
http://gmayor.com/Zips/Doswrd32.zip
Perhaps Graham will come along and comment on that
Another possibility is Conversions Plus from DataViz, though it would
be a separate step to make the conversion rather than a Save As form
Word:
http://www.dataviz.com/products/conv...lus/index.html
HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
On 8/6/07 4:34 PM, in article
, "Lin Randall"
wrote:
We use Folio Views on our web site for and intranet for many of our
legislative documents, and in order to create the .nfo files we must
start with a document in Word 2.x format. Our users have Word 2003
installed, but many of them do not have the option to save as Word
2.x. I have downloaded the converter pack but it does not include
that option and I have been unable to find it. Where can I get it?