converting from 4.2 (wasRe: All power to the "WorldMaster"?)

["Joel Lidov" <Lidov>]

I think what you want is possible but probably not with a little 
tweaking on your part.  First:  get 6.1; everything works better.
(And try converting to .rtf instead of to other word processors 
directly). Second:  Are you using default or custom conversion from 
NBDos in NBW?  Some of what you want you may have written into the 
defaults of the DOS version, and these are different from the 
defaults of NBW.  If you use "custom" NB will, I think, pick up your 
DOS defaults and write them into the NBW file; alternatively, and 
perhaps better, adjust your NBW defaults to get closer to what you 
want (under Tools, preferences).  For numbers of lines per page make 
sure you turn off widows/orphans, and set maximum, minimum, and 
normal bottom margin to the same figure, which gives you a constant 
bottom margin.  Make sure you haven't got AL=1 on by default. The 
problem of different widths may get tricky, depending on what you 
used to set them in the earlier version.  At one point we were all 
encouraged to use OF to handle variable left margins, but now you 
can't do that, you need to use IP (which now sets right margin as 
well as left).  Your best bet is probably to set OF to the maximum 
you want in your NBW default, then erase whatever you have at the top 
of the converted file and insert the IP delta after the header delta. 
If you relied on different OF for header and file body (which I don't 
think you can do now, but I haven't tried) and then kept resetting IP 
within the body, you may have to write a program that changes all the 
IP's to new values.

Joel