To all the good folks who shred their appreciated replies, thank you.
I don't know what kind of "file" is in the .wps format.
It's about 5 pages of mostly plain text I can see a bot in WordPad.
Word 2016 doesn't open it.
I tried to reach that converter application and when I tried connecting
> In Microsoft Word 2003 or newer, just choose the "Works" file type from the
Open dialog box.
> You can then navigate to the folder containing the WPS file you want to
> open.
Which was removed in MS Office 2007... so basically no: if you / your friend
does not also have a decade old software