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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 336

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 336. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Interchange of wealthy words but not plain.

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rich text

Interchange (the format was intended for interchange of documents) of wealthy (rich) words (text) but not plain (not plain text).

2: Microsoft’s proprietary medical practitioner from 1983 until 2007.

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doc

Microsoft’s proprietary (although it has been reversed, it remains proprietary) medical practitioner (a doc) from 1983 until 2007 (although it has changed substantially over that period, it came with Word for MS-DOS in 1983, and was replaced by docx in Word 2007).

3: 2003-2007 = 1,050 afterword.

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WordML

2003-2007 (it was introduced in Microsoft Word 2003, and superseded by Office Open XML in Microsoft Word 2007) = 1,050 (ML in Roman numerals) afterword (after ‘Word’).

The common factor

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They are all text formats supported by textutil.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.