Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 22:45 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
However, I gather OOo doesn't open Works documents.
Save as rtf then import. In fact OOo does a lot better job of importing
MS Office docs than works so for a new user OOo is a far better bet than
Works. If you have a load of Works legacy documents you will have Works
already so keep it for when needed and use OOo for everything else. Its
not like many people interchange files as Works attachments.
I suppose, for
text documents, they can be saved to RTF and imported like that into
OOo, but spreadsheets with formulae in them would be a problem.
Why? Works has an Excel export which can then be imported into OOo.
The problem with what you suggest (which is the course I took some years
ago) is: a) it's two awkward steps (using different programs), which can
become an issue if you have hundreds of older documents to access, and
b) it may not be possible if the computer with Works has crashed, and
the new computer (where you are trying to read your old backup copies)
doesn't have Works.
Now if you want a real jump, add the ability to read MS Works database
files. Because almost no program in the world can read those things.
Microsoft's own knowledge base says that, to import a Works database
into Access, first open Works and save the database as a dBASE file,
them import that into Access. Which is too bad, because it was an
easy-to-use app for maintaining flat tables (like address lists). It's
just that it is so totally non-compatible with anything else. About the
only thing I've found is Quick View Plus.
Microsoft Works: the ultimate oxymoron.
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Andy Luddy
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