Re: copying & pasting between XY and MS
- From: "M.W. Poirier" <poirmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:27:24 -0400 (EDT)
If we are speaking of a wordprocessing file, why not save your XY
document in RTF and call up the RTF file in MSWord in Open Office?
It could not be easier. It takes about 7 seconds, and most of that
is time spent on locating the RTF file while in MSWord.
If it's a matter of saving only a section of a XY document, copy
the section, paste it into a new document, and then save as RTF; or
alternatively, save the whole XY document as RTF and load that into
MSWord, and then cut the unwanted sections.
I don't see a problem here, but I may be misunderstanding the
question.
M.W. Poirier
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Avrom Fischer wrote:
Since at least three quarters of the posts are over my head, I do not
know whether my comments add anything but here goes. I run xy4 from a
full screen in xp pro using the icon Robert described a few years ago.
When I want to switch between xy4 and a windows application, I save my
document with a txt extension after stripping out the deltas. I than
call it up in notepad and paste the retrieved document in the windows
applicaton I want to use. When converting a document generated by
windows application such as excell or word, I paste it into a notepad
since it seems to strip out hard returns, store the file with a txt
extension and than retrieve it in xy.
I assume there is a better way of doing the conversion back and forth,
but at least I understand what I am doing and so far it works.
I still have working copies of word for word so if I want to preserve
formating I use word for word for conversions both ways.
Will any of my procedures work on a pc with windows 7.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Binswanger<mailto:hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: copying & pasting between XY and MS
Kari,
This has to be a very awkward and unnecessary way to go. Xy works just
peachy under XP. The cocoon he has to break out of is the idea that
full-screen is better than a big window. Virtual PC is overkill.
Regards,
Harry
>If you are upgrading to XP, you must break out of your cocoon and find a
>new cozy nest for your DOS applications. VirtualPC is a good choice. This
>way you can run your apps under native DOS and full-screen. Copying data
>gets done through a shared folder as files.
>
>To install VirtualPC, go to my utilities page
>(http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html<http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html>)
and
>
>1) download MS Virtual PC 2007 (Windows Vista or Windows XP)
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx
>
>2) download my DOS Additions
(http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/dosadd.zip<http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/dosadd.zip>),
>unzip it and open the readme file for installation instructions (DOS
>additions are needed to share a folder between DOS and XP)
>
>3) install DOS into the virtual machine, then the DOS additions, and
>applications (Xy). If you install Windows 3.11 on top of DOS, you can use
>networking and DOS boxes, but this is a bit more complicated, and a not
>needed for basic operation.
>
>One added benefit is that once you have your DOS apps in a virtual
>machine, you can copy the virtual machine to a newer operating system,
>i.e. it is totally portable.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Kari Eveli
>LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
>lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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Harry Binswanger
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