Hi James,
HPGL was more widely used in 1994 for graphics control
It wasn't that MS forgot as much as they discontinued
working on support for HPGL in Word. HP was working on
moving away from it at the time towards a newer 'language',
but that didn't quite work out for them entirely
The MS HPGL filter download is still available (not updated),
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196506&FR=1
but it doesn't work as well in Word 2002 and 2003 as in earlier
versions, where MS has moved from the GDI to the GDIPlus
graphics engine. (i.e. it will work fine on some .HPG,
..HPGL and .PLT files, but not on others. If you get a
preview in Insert=>Picture you'll likely be okay with the
file in Word as well.
Be sure to follow the information in the Readme file in
the package for setting the registry and in Word turn
on Tools=>Options=>General [x] confirm conversions at open
and then use Insert=>Picture
to have Word update its settings of available converters.
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Is this still missing?
I remember reading that Microsoft had forgotten to include it in Office 97
and you could download the importer separately. It was there in Word 2 for
Windows which I was using in 1994! >>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx