Thanks PJ, Bill, Doug and Brian
Bill _ I clicked on that link and was off and running - thanks!
So I did download open office... IT'S GREAT!
I didn't try to put MSword 97 on the new computer... I never even put
office on my "old" computer - I asked for word 97 only when the old
computer was new..
And I found some precious doc files in odd folders on the new computer..
at least they are there.
ann
On 5/28/2015 22:43, Brian Walters wrote:
Quoting Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>:
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...
That's odd. I have an even older version of MS Word in my archives
(version 6c dating from about 1994) so I just reinstalled it on my Win 7
computer and fired it up. It worked fine and opened all my older .doc
files. So I don't think there's an inherent incompatibility issue with
Win 7 and your MS Word but I can't offer an explanation for your problem.
In any event, I agree with the suggestion of installing Open Office (or
Libre Office, which is much the same thing). It should allow you to open
and edit your doc files and you can kiss MS Office goodbye forever :-)>
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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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