Opening a Mac Document with Word

[jackson6770]

I wrote a book about 10 years ago and want to revise it for
republication. I had someone put the book together for me, but he used
a Macintosh program - BookMaker or something like that I think. Anyway,
I tried to open the file on the Zip disc I have it on, but Word won't
open it. I have Windows XP Home edition. Does anyone have any
suggestions? Thanks.

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[mmmmark]

I wrote a book about 10 years ago and want to revise it for
republication. I had someone put the book together for me, but he used
a Macintosh program - BookMaker or something like that I think. Anyway,
I tried to open the file on the Zip disc I have it on, but Word won't
open it. I have Windows XP Home edition. Does anyone have any
suggestions? Thanks.

(e-mail address removed)

You probably need to get the book in a plain text (.TXT) or rich text format
(.RTF). Do you know if there is any way to export to one of these formats?

Good luck,
Mark

 

[jackson6770]

Mark,

I have the book on a Zip drive, but my Windows program won't even open
it. I don't have a Mac.

Lynn

 

[jackson6770]

Sorry,

It's my first post here, and I obviously don't quite have it down.

 

[mmmmark]

Could it have been PageMaker or FrameMaker by chance? Those programs are
available on the PC side. You could find someone with those applications
and they could convert the text to a format you could open in Word.

If you can't open the files directly in Word, you are likely out of luck
unless you can find the original program. Does your friend still have it?

-Mark