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Q195126: WD97: Third-Party Conversion Solutions

Article: Q195126
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:97
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Keyword(s): kbconversion word97
Last Modified: 14-NOV-2000

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SUMMARY
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The "More Information" section of this article discusses providers of third-
party conversion solutions.


Some of the products and services mentioned here are manufactured or provided by
vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise,
regarding these products' and services' performance or reliability.

The third-party contact information included in this article is provided to help
you find the technical support you need. This contact information is subject to
change without notice. Microsoft in no way guarantees the accuracy of this
third-party contact information.

MORE INFORMATION
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Muller Media Conversions
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Muller Media Conversions, Inc., specializes in providing solutions to corporate
document-and-data-transfer problems for many nonstandard formats not supported
by the more mainstream file conversion products, such as MasterSoft
Corporation's Windows Word for Word.

  32 Broadway
  Suite 1600
  New York, NY 10004
  Phone: (212) 344-0474
  Fax: (212) 968-0789
  Web: http://www.mullermedia.com

M/H Group
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The M/H Group's W-Link disk-to-disk file conversion program (not to be confused
with their similarly named product, "Word-Link") provides word processing
document conversion between Wang PC documents and IBM PC word processing
formats.

The M/H Group TextCom program provides an IBM PC or compatible with
telecommunication capabilities and allows it to convert some word processing
document formats to and from Wang systems via the WPS Bisynchronous Protocol.

M/H Group Word-Link disk-to-disk file conversion program (not to be confused with
their similarly named product, W-Link) provides disk-to-disk document conversion
between IBM PC-based word-processing formats.

M/H Group's "Archive-Link" program provides disk-to-disk document conversions
between standard Wang OIS or VS system 5.25-inch Archive Disk Format and IBM PC
based word processing formats.

  125 S. Wacker Dr. Suite 300
  Chicago, Illinois 60606
  Phone: (312) 214-6944
  Fax: (312) 443-1377

Zandar Corporation
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Zandar Corporation's TagWrite products are advertised as providing support for
conversion from IBM Bookmaster, Document Composition Format (DCF), Interleaf,
Ventura, SGML, KEEP, and other formats to Rich Text Format (RTF). TagWrite
supports styles; headings; complex tables; emphasis (bold, italic, underline,
etc.); references, cross-references, and Index for dynamic update in Word;
special characters; footnotes; and other features. This product includes support
for equations (Word Equation Editor versions 3.0 and later) for Bookmaster.

  117 South Williams
  Burlington, Vermont 05401
  Phone: (802) 862-8005
  Fax: (802) 862-7913
  Web: http://www.tagwrite.com/

Advanced Computer Innovations
-----------------------------

Advanced Computer Innovations, Inc. word processing conversion software products,
WordPort and R-Doc/X, provide a third party conversion option for several word
processing formats.

  30 Burncoat Way
  Pittsford, NY 14534-2216
  Phone: (716) 383-1939
  Fax: (716) 383-8428

Traveling Software
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LapLink Mac Release by Traveling Software is a file transfer and format
conversion utility for use in transferring and converting word processing
documents between the Macintosh and PC environments.

  19812 North Creek Parkway
  Bothell, WA 98011
  Phone: (800) 343-8080 or (206) 483-8088
  Fax: (206) 487-5440
  Web: http://www.travsoft.com

ZyLAB International
-------------------

ZyLAB Corporation provides support for simultaneous search and retrieval of files
in multiple formats, including Microsoft Word formats, with its products ZyINDEX
for MS-DOS and ZyINDEX for Windows.

  92210 Corporate Blvd. Suite 200
  Rockville, MD 20850
  Phone: (800) 544-6339
  Fax: (301) 590-0903
  Web: http://www.zylab.com

National Data Conversion Institute
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The National Data Conversion Institute is a file and media conversion bureau that
advertises support for conversions between the Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Works, and Microsoft FoxBASE families and over 3500 different computer
systems including word processors, minicomputers, microcomputers, and mainframes
with a typical turnaround of 24-48 hours from receipt of the source media.

  5 East 16th Street
  New York, NY 10003
  Phone: (212) 463-7511

MDCS DataTran
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MDCS DataTran is a conversion bureau that provides conversion services,
specializing in document transfer. MDCS advertises support for a wide variety of
computer formats, dedicated word processors, mainframe, miniframe, and
microcomputers, including the Microsoft Word family of products.

  1213 27th St.
  Port Townsend, WA 98368
  (360) 379-1701

K-Talk Communications, Inc.
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K-Talk Communication's "MathPORT" conversion product is advertised as being
capable of converting equation and other typesetting definitions from Tex and
LaTeX, DERIVE, Maple, Mathematica, and WordPerfect formats to image file format
(TIFF), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), or EPS with TIFF preview graphic images
that can subsequently be inserted as pictures into any of our Word family
products in order to retain appearance.

In addition, K-Talk also offers a conversion product known as "TexPort" that
converts complete documents from TeX and LaTeX typesetting formats to
WordPerfect 5.1 documents, with the equations converted in K-Talk format and
available in a variety of graphics formats (TIFF, WMF or EPS). This provides an
avenue in which to convert Tex and LaTeX documents to Word. The WordPerfect
converter supplied with Word will import the converted document and the
equations can be edited with the K-Talk MathEdit equation editor which is
included with TexPort. Macros for Word for Windows 6.0 automate the conversion
from TeX to Word.

Finally, K-TALK offers a conversion product known as "Publishing Companion" that
translates Word and WordPerfect documents into TeX or LaTeX format. Equations,
tables and most commands are converted. Word 6.x or 7.0 for Windows is required.
Publishing Companion converts Word Equation Editor 2.0 equations to K-Talk's
equation format used in the MathEdit equation editor and then to TeX or LaTeX.
The process is automated through a WordBasic macro.

  1287 King Avenue, Suite 203
  Columbus, Ohio 43212-2220
  Phone: (614)488-8818
  Fax: (614)488-9505
  Web: http://isis.infinet.com/ktalk E-mail: lisa@ktalk.com

Inso Corporation
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QuickView Plus allows viewing and conversion of files from several foreign file
formats into Word via the Windows Clipboard. Outside In can be installed for
access from a Word for Windows menu.

  330 N. Wabash Ave., 15th Floor
  Chicago, IL 60611
  Phone: (312) 692-5100 or (800) 333-1395
  Fax: (312) 670-0820

Electronic Filing Consultants
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations require submission of
quarterly 10-Q reports in ASCII text format. This requirement stems from the
SEC's use of the EDGAR Text Retrieval System, which itself expects information
in ASCII form.

The "X2ASC" macro product manufactured by Electronic Filing Consultants, Ltd.,
(EFC) is advertised to provide conversion from Word to ASCII in a manner that
conforms to SEC regulations for EDGAR documents.

  2954 North Racine Avenue
  Suite No. 1
  Chicago, IL 60657-4232
  Phone: (312) 226-5858
  Fax: (312) 226-5858
  Web: http://www.electfiling.com CompuServe E-Mail#: 72741,1662

DataViz, Inc.
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DataViz Corporation advertises Conversions Plus for Windows as a complete Windows
solution that provides file conversions between Macintosh and PC programs, as
well as conversions between PC programs. The product allows you to put a
high-density Macintosh disk in your PC and copy files to and from that disk, as
well as convert files directly on your PC.

MacLink Plus is a translation (converter) library that allows conversion between
Word for Windows, Word for MS-DOS, Word for the Macintosh, and a large number of
third-party products.

  55 Corporate Drive
  Trumbell, CT 06611
  Phone: (203) 268-0030
  Fax: (203) 268-4345
  Web: http://www.dataviz.com

Langel Conversion Services
--------------------------

Langel Conversion Services is a multi-service bureau that provides conversion
services specializing in document transfer. Langel offers support for a wide
variety of computer formats, dedicated word processors, mainframe, mini, and
microcomputers. Langel advertises support for conversion to and/or from
Microsoft Word family products.

  370 7th Ave. Suite 1710
  New York, New York 10001
  (212) 967-1303

Exoterica Corporation
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Exoterica Corporation's XGML OmniMark product includes a programming language
combined with a premium validating SGML parser. XGML OmniMark can be used to
convert SGML documents to the input languages of other products (for example,
Microsoft rich text format [RTF]), to convert the output languages of other
products (including the Microsoft Word family) to SGML- defined languages
including AAP and CALS (commonly referred to as autotagging), and to convert
between arbitrary languages and data formats. As a result, XGML OmniMark
provides a high-level, bidirectional SGML and other foreign format conversion
avenue for Word for Windows, Word for MS- DOS, and Word for the Macintosh.

  1400 Blair Place
  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1J9B8
  Phone: (613) 745-4242
  Fax: (613) 745-5560
  Web: http://www.exoterica.com

PIVAR Computing Services, Inc.
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PIVAR Computing Services, Inc. is a file and media conversion bureau that
advertises support for conversion between Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format
(RTF) and over 600 other software package formats. In total, PIVAR advertises
conversion support for over 5000 conversion formats to and from magnetic tapes,
minicomputers, microcomputers, word processors, typesetters, tape cartridges,
CD-ROM, and other software packages.

  165 Arlington Heights Road
  Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
  Phone: (847) 459-6010 or (800) CONVERT
  Fax: (847) 459-6095
  Web: http://www.pivar.com

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Keywords          : kbconversion word97 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Issue type        : kbinfo

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