Jane,
 I wouldn't necessarily assume it was an attempt by Microsoft to "make it
more difficult for people who don't want to use their software."
 I would be more likely to guess that the WordPerfect folks can't (or
won't) come to agreement on terms of a  license to Microsoft for the rights
to use newer versions of WordPerfect for use as a "Save as" format.
 I wouldn't expect Ford to make all their parts interchangeable with
General Motors...so I guess it is not surprising that the two big
wordprocessing manufacturers won't work together either...(but wouldn't it
be nice if they did!)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG]On Behalf
Of Jane Prudhomme
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 5:46 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: Re: Word Perfect/Adobe Acrobat

All "recent" versions of Microsoft Office only allow conversion to
WordPerfect 5
or below.  Nothing higher.  Therein is the problem. I'm assuming it's a
"marketing" thing Microsoft does to make it more difficult for people who
don't
want to use their software.
- Jane

Randall Legeai wrote:

> At 09:41 PM 12/07/1999 -0700, you wrote:
> >The WordPerfect to PDF conversion is the same as for Office 97/Word 97 to
> >PDF. One likely explanation is that the document was compromised when it
> >was translated to Office 97/Word 97, since Word will only recognize
> >WordPerfect 5 (published 7 or 8 years ago).
>
>
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