Open Office from the Apache foundation, the user interface is a bit
different than MS Office and it likes to save things in it's own format,
but it will open all previous Office documents. I use Open Office on my
Win7 laptop, and have a copy on my WinXP desktop, but use MSOffice 2000
there more often. I never warmed to the later versions of Office where
they decided menus were out and all controls had to be tiled. Download
is free, I don't remember if there were any gotchas.
On 5/28/2015 9:51 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
OK now the problem is that my copy of MS Word is so old that Win 7
doesn't support it ... in fact, the .doc files don't even appear on
the new computer. I never upgraded because I was very happy, thank
you, with Word 97...
I have heard tell of free versions of Word that would recognize and
find the older ones and allow me to open them...
WHen the old computer crashed and I took the external drive in for
recovery the one that was attached to the old Dell clobbered a lot..
A previous external drive was readable and I did recover quite a bit but
I can't see the doc files on the new external drive - when I go to my
documents I get the nasty message "no supported files - folder empty"
so what do I do? some of the doc files are pretty important - some of
them, fortunately, are on an older external drive , but I'd love to be
able to access them on my new bus.
One thing I thought of was to change the .doc's that were inportant
for content but not so much for appearance, to plain text which, I
would think, I could then open in wordpad. but really id like to be
able to see my original .doc fiels on the new machine even if I can't
open them
on it.
T i a
ann
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