Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: > > 2) You want to send a Word document to somebody who wants to process it > > with Word. In that case, send her the plain ASCI text, and tell her > > that she can import it in Word by clicking <import as> [text > > files]. > > That's the one, (Un)fortunately he is rather inflexible (I mean, would > I want to work for a company like that?).
There is another option: create the plain text file, but give it's filename a *.doc extension. It will show up in windows explorer with a Word icon, and will open without having to click 'import as'. Matthew