Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-28 Thread jonathon
On 9/25/2014 11:41 AM, NoOp wrote: Once upon a time, OOo could open MS Works documents. ... Perhaps a very long time ago. However in OOo did not in 2010: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions/208996 Of course Go-oo is no longer... Try

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-25 Thread NoOp
On 09/23/2014 08:09 AM, jonathon wrote: On 9/23/2014 6:41 AM, Brian Barker wrote: OpenOffice handles word documents just fine. But not Works documents, which are the subject of the enquiry. Once upon a time, OOo could open MS Works documents. ... Perhaps a very long time ago. However

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: User support groups are for getting users' job done, not for holy wars. OpenOffice cannot do what is needed, period. The user is asking about Open Office. The second reply directed him to a converter from Microsoft that allows

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread jonathon
On 9/23/2014 6:41 AM, Brian Barker wrote: OpenOffice handles word documents just fine. But not Works documents, which are the subject of the enquiry. Once upon a time, OOo could open MS Works documents. Whether or not LibreOffice retained that capacity, I do not know. But it appears that

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 08:09 23/09/2014 -0700, Jonathon Noname wrote: On 9/23/2014 6:41 AM, Brian Barker wrote: OpenOffice handles word documents just fine. Er, no: I didn't write that. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread Julian Thomas
On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:41, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: OpenOffice handles word documents just fine. But not Works documents, which are the subject of the enquiry. End of story. Not for Works documents. If AOO could not handle a simple doc file with recipes it would

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:53 23/09/2014 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote: On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:41, Brian Barker wrote: OpenOffice handles word documents just fine. But not Works documents, which are the subject of the enquiry. End of story. Not for Works documents. If AOO could not handle a simple doc file with

MS Works 8.0

2014-09-22 Thread sailordave6872
I just downloaded OpenOffice 4.1.1 and would like to use it to open our old MS Works (wps) documents using OpenOffice. Wife has over 400 recipes in wps format. We have MS Works on the old laptop and want to transfer the documents in the new laptop. Is there some extension I can download to

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-22 Thread James Knott
On 09/22/2014 04:32 PM, sailordave6...@att.net wrote: I just downloaded OpenOffice 4.1.1 and would like to use it to open our old MS Works (wps) documents using OpenOffice. Wife has over 400 recipes in wps format. We have MS Works on the old laptop and want to transfer the documents in

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-22 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:32 PM, sailordave6...@att.net wrote: I just downloaded OpenOffice 4.1.1 and would like to use it to open our old MS Works (wps) documents using OpenOffice. Wife has over 400 recipes in wps format. We have MS Works on the old laptop and want to transfer the

Re: MS Works 8.0

2014-09-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: The best way to open MS Works file is to use LibreOffice, http://libreoffice.org/download/ You can then save them in ODF format and open them in Apache OpenOffice if you want. Could you please use your IDG columns for