converting WP-WORD

[Yurij.Lotoshko]

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> oT: Yoshimasa Tsuji <yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
> kOMU: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> tEMA: Re: converting WP-WORD
> dATA: 16 I at LQ 1998 G. 11:47
>
>   |Could anyone tell me how to convert Russian WP (5.1) texts to WORD
(97)?
>
> The easiest method is
>       1. let your WP load the text and save it with options: DOS text.
>       2. let your MS Word load the text with the knowledge that it is
>          a DOS text.
>       3. If yours are not native Russian, you cannot do anything at all.
>
> Note that
> 1. If you have no WP, but only WP text files, you need someone else's
>    assistance. (I once wrote a utility that read a WP text file and
>    converted it to a legible LaTeX file, but I cannot remember where I
>    put it years ago). Newer WP runs under MS Windows and can save the
>    text in Windows format, but I think WP5.1 dealt with DOS only.
> 2. If your MS Word is not a true Russian version, it cannot read a DOS
>    text file. You will need a help of an MS Word owner with the right
>    conversion modules. (I once managed to guess which module --- *.dll --
>    loaded the plain MS Windows text, but I cannot remember the name off
hand.)
>    If your MS Word can load/save  Windows text files, you will only
>    need a DOS-to-Windows converter program (look for one with keywords
>    like Alternative, CodePage 866, CodePage 1251).
>
> As far as I remember WP did not allow us to save the file as an MS Word
> file, but other word processing software like Corel something, MS Word,
> etc. understood WP files and was able to export in MS or other formats.
> All this depends upon how much Russian software you have at your
disposal.
>
> If you have a regular internet access (i.e. ftp'able machine in both
> directions), I could ftp-get/convert/ftp-put it.
>
> Cheers,
> Tsuji
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> P.S.
> W.P.5.1 used a proprietary encoding scheme for the Russian language,
> which was neither DOS (whose encoding scheme is codepage 866) nor
> Windows(codepage 1251).

using such metod yuo can losed tables, bolg type and so on
better use word6.0 word7.0
save as rtf- file and load in Word 97
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