Have you tried one of the web based office suites (like Google Docs, Office 365, or Zoho Office etc.)?
Failing that, there seem to be a bunch of options when I googled for "word perfect import to open office" (without the quotes). On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Tom Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Might this work? > > http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Greg King > Sent: July 20, 2011 11:27 AM > To: CLUG General > Subject: [clug-talk] Re Word 6.0 documents > > The public library has relatively current versions of MS Word on their > systems. You might try taking a few documents on a USB stick and seeing > if they can be read by Word. If so, you should be able to save as a > newer version of word or as an RFT. > > Greg > > On 11-07-20 02:27 AM, Ralph Boland wrote: >> I have on my Linux (Ubuntu) system several Word 6.0 documents >> that were created in 1998ish on a Mac. >> >> I tried to open them using open office but was shocked :-) to find that >> open office could not read them. >> >> Can anyone suggest a hopefully inexpensive way for me to be able to >> read these files? >> >> It would also be useful to be able to convert them to a form that I can >> view from Linux? >> >> Regards, >> >> Rocky Boland >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
