On 11/16/2011 03:26 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
John
On 11/16/2011 01:50 PM, John Gregson wrote:
I am using Win 7 32 & 64
I am just starting to explore Libre Office.
Some where I saw a statement that Libre Office would open
files generated by Microsoft Works; is this true?
John.
*John. [email protected]*
I checked in Writer FILE>>OPEN and clicked on file type to open the
scroll box. I scrolled down to 'Microsoft Works Documents *.wps'. I
did this to see what the file extension is for Works. On the other
scroll box, Works is listed but the extension is not shown.
I do not have any Works files to test this on but with 3.4.X I have
had success opening msox and mso files so would expect wps to open
properly with LO.
I looks to me that LO 3.4.3 will read Works files but will not write
them, since "Open" list Works, but not "Save As".
If for some reason it does not open Works documents properly, you should
be able to save the files within Works to some other format. It has
been some years since I dealt with Works, but I have a copy or three to
install on my Vista laptop to test this out if need be.
To be honest, I do not know why MS still gives them out with some new
computer systems, along with their trial of MSO. MSO did not like to
deal with Works files a few years back when I was using MSO as my only
office package. Very few packages will read Works documents. People
are luck that LO is one of the packages that do read them.
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