It's not that simple. Although the option is visible. It prompts you to
insert the original software disk. When you do that, it says this
option is not available. Is the office version of word less robust
than the stand alone version?
I thought there might be a simple plug-in I could download.
There is such a plug-in, although a certain amount of formatting gets
dropped in the process. Nonetheless, you get the text and some of the
formatting.
I have the plug-in; it is called
Word 97-98 Import
and it goes in the Word Commands folder of 5.1a. I have no idea where or
if you can still download this, but I got it years ago. It is about 450K
in size. It still works because the file format from Word 97/98 on up
has remained the same. For that reason, even though Word 2004/Mac lacks
a "Save As" function to save as Word 5.1a, you can open even a Word 2004
file in say Word 2001 and save down from there. Saving as .rtf is also
possible, of course, but creates additional interpretation problems when
you open the file in Word 5.
The best solution, as someone else suggested, is always to save down
from the higher version, rather than using an iffy import filter.
George
