[Ham-Computers] Formatting Word pad Document

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Dale, 	
	
Thank you. Ouch! A lot of money.	
	
I just had a thought. I think that the Arkenstone OpenBook Unbound software,
$995 worth, which converts scanned B/W printed text into a speakable format,
also has an option to save the document in various word processing formats. I
think I recall that MS Word 5.0 was one of them.	
	
Now, will MS Word 5.0 documents load into Word Pad correctly?		
	
Sometimes what seems like a simple task ends up being one of great complexity. 	
	
Duane W8DBF	

	

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From: Dale Miller <stpatrick3 at twlakes.net>
To: Computers or other used for amateur radio communications or experimenting
<ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Formatting Word pad Document
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:22 AM

Well Duane the only conversion program I could find was Wordport.
It cost 149 for a single user.
The web page is http://www.acii.com/wpt.htm
It will convert Professional Write 1.x and 2.x files to most Windows 
Word Processor formats and HTML.

Hope this Helps

Regards and 73's

Dale Miller, KC2CBD



Duane Fischer W8DBF wrote:

>Thank you very much for the good instructions.		
>	
>it appears that Word Pad has a fixed default configuration that can not be
>changed. At least not as far as I can determine.	
>	
>You can change the default settings, but 'only' for the current document. Once
>you exit Word Pad, the original settings are back.	
>	
>You can create a document with the desired defaults and save it, load it each
>time to have them. Annoying, but doable.	
>	
>Several have commented on the Word Pad default margins. Well, they are not the
>same for different Windows OS. For instance, Windows 95b has left and right
>margins of 1.25 inches, Windows 98a has left and right margins of 1.0 inches.
>Windows XP HE has left and right margins of 1.25 inches, so I am told. I do not
>have it to confirm it.	
>	
>I was a little surprised that the default location that Word Pad saves a file
to
>is the 'desktop'! Being a programmer from when Texas Instruments came out with
>the 99/4 in 1980. A sixteen bit machine that was a decade ahead of its time.
>Brilliant company, but poor at marketing. That's another story though!  	
>	
>I checked to see exactly where Word Pad was located on the hard drive. I found
>it, all of one executable file. No default configuration or other files. Well
>that does keep it simple!	
>	
>Now why you ask does the blind dude want to use Word Pad anyhow? Simply because
>the blind dude is still in love with that girl he was too foolish not to marry
>and is also still in love with DOS! I use Professional Write version 2.22, the
>last version that was issued. It is a DOS word processing program. The screen
>reading software for the blind and print handicapped (Before anyone gets upset
>here, print handicapped is not a slam at sighted people, but a term that refers
>to those who can see normally but have a neurological problem that prevents
them
>from being able to read normally.), works almost perfectly with DOS based
>software. Tremendous flexibility and can be configured to match the screen
>layouts with reasonable ease. This is not true for Windows! A totally different
>system from the ASCII to the GUI. From characters with numeric values to
>graphics to form the characters.   	
>	
>The DOS word processing software lets me do anything I want and be able to read
>it, spell check it and manipulate it as a need may dictate. I can not do this
>with any of the Windows based word processing programs from the simplistic Note
>Pad to Word For Windows etc. 	
>	
>What I am trying to do here, and I may be wasting my time, is figure out a way
>to take the file from the DOS word processing program saved as ASCII text, load
>it into Word Pad and then convert it to a Word pad document format. Now I can
do
>the reverse, that is, I can save a Word Pad document out as MS DOS text.	
>	
>I have a large number of documents I need to convert to a format compatible
with
>Word Pad or MS Word. I am hoping there is a practical alternative besides
having
>to type them into Word Pad character by character.There may not be.	
>	
>Gentlemen, ladies too if we have any among our ranks, any suggestions?
>	
>Thank you. 	
>	
>Duane W8DBF	
>
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