On 20 May 99, at 6:54, Brad Loomis wrote:
> A fairly simple question I hope. How do I save a Word2000 or 97 document as
> ASCII text? Which of the options under Save As will give me that result? Is
> it plain text? This is to submit a resume via email. Thanks.
Copied from the Word97 help (My question to "clippy" was "What's special
about saving as MS-DOS text?") :
> Text only with line breaks, MS-DOS text only with line breaks:
>
> Saves text without formatting. Converts all line breaks, section breaks,
> and page breaks to paragraph marks. Use this format when you want to
> maintain line breaks ¾ for example, when transferring documents to an
> electronic mail system.
That last phrase is, I think, the key.
[Sections immediately previous explained that MS-DOS text uses the IBM PC
"extended ASCII" character set, which includes some characters that may not
display properly on non-PC systems. "ASCII text" gives the most widely
portable character set; "with line breaks" inserts hard returns at each line,
rather than just at the end of each paragraph.]
David G
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