Hello,
Here's a thing thats been bugging me for a little while and I thought
rather than spend x amount of hours fiddling around with it, maybe
someone else on this list can supply me with the answer off the top
of their head.
I often get word documents attached to my email (ie weekly work
rosters). I don't have the latest version of Word but I used to have
Word 5. Unfortunately Word 5, which was adequate for my stuff, is a
little annoying when running under OS9 - I use keyboard shortcuts
heaps and under OS9 Word they no longer work. But thats not my
problem.
I now use Appleworks 6. Unfortunately the Word attachments are coming
through as Word 5 although I know they're not. Its like my computer
is automatically assigning these files to be of the Word 5 kind.
Double clicking on them brings up a message to tell me that the
application program could not be found. And when I try to open them
in Appleworks it doesn't recognise them. The built in translators for
Appleworks don't include Word 5 docs.
Now, what I have been doing is opening the files in a program called
Filetyper and changing the creator code to that of Word 2001. This
allows me to open the files in Appleworks using the built-in
translators.
This works fine but it is quite a manual affair and as a result I end
up not making the file conversion and not reading these files which
is a bad habit for me to get into.
So, can anyone tell me how I can get my computer to correctly
recognise what these files are?
TIA
Michael.
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