Ann: Open the document on your computer and click File | Save as. In the file types section at the bottom of the dialog box, scroll up and down until you find Word 97-2002 (*.doc) (or something similar) and then click Save. This will save the document as a .doc file capable of being opened in Word 2003. Email this converted file to your sister.
Please refer to the following MS article which outlines file formats supported in Works. http://tinyurl.com/q8w7v I hope this helps you. Carol Warman ____________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ann parker Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: PCWorks: HELP!!!! How to transfer Ms. Works to Ms. Work! Hi Group! I will have to give you a bit of background info before you will be able to help me. I am just hoping that one of you is at your computer and can help me tonight. It is now almost 8:00 PM in Georgia. I will stay up until twelve just hoping that one of you can help my sister and me! Here's the story. My 76 year old sister in SC is an officer in a Boating Power Squadron for the Southeaster United States. She volunteered to do the 2006-2007 manual (names, offices, meeting dates, sailing dates, etc.) for their annual meeting THIS COMING WEEKEND. All the units in her district sent her the changes they have made....honors earned, new officers, new members, etc. She spent three weeks typing the one for this year, using last year's manual as a guide. No one told her that she had to follow the same format, so she typed it (28 pages) using what I consider a much better format. When she finished it and sent it in to the officer in charge of having it printed up for delivery to the members THIS WEEKEND at the annual meeting, she received a rather scathing email informing her that it was a terrible mess as she had not followed the format used last year. No one had told her that she must follow a certain format. She was in tears when she called me, her 80-year-old sister, seeking help. I have been using a computer for over ten years for emails, searching for things, and doing a newsletter for the Southeastern Georgia unit duplicate bridge which I belong to, but have never used my MICROSOFT WORKS WORD PROCESSOR, preferring Wordpad for most of my typing. She sent me a copy of what she had thought was the finished product ready for the printer and asked me to try to follow last year's manual (which she also sent to me) and try to format it exactly the way it was done last year, even using the same page numbersl This of course meant that I must make the print smaller to try to make it fit into the proper format. I did an awful lot of cutting and pasting! I have worked for four days trying to do just that. Today when I finished all 27 pages of this program I emailed the project to my sister. Almost instantly, I received a message from my her saying that what she had received from me was a jumbled mess. She couldn't read it. A friend was to proofread it with her before she sent in the finished product . Of course this was now impossible! She had a copy of what she had written but no copy of what I had done. She had used WORD 2003 and I had used Works Version 6. Now, here is my question..........Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get my Works project changed into Word 2003 so that she can download it and proofread it. It must be proofread as I did an awfully lot of cutting and pasting and could have made mistakes. It would be terrible to leave a name off or misspell a name, or have someone belonging to a squadron in North Carolina when he should have been in the Georgia list. One other minor thing I need help on is this: I had two pages with regular print across the page and then the rest of the page was two columned. I can do a single page in two columns, but I don't know how to do a message written across the page and then start two-columns. I know there is a simple solution to this, but I can't find it. I even have a cd on MS WORKS but when I tried to download it, they asked for a number that I don't have. I threw away all my sleeves or boxes that this cd came in, so it is perfectly useless to me now. Is there anything I can do about this? It seems unfair to have paid for a program and then not be able to use it because you no longer have the sleeve or box that it came in. Thanks in advance. I will come out to my den about once an hour and cheek my pc to see if any one of you is able to help me out. Ann Parker ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
