On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dipa quoted:
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>"MSWorks files have a proprietary format which is being kept secret by
>Microsoft. However a reasonable workaround is to save your WKS files as
>RTF files. OpenOffice can read and write RTF files. However there is a
>Microsoft utility for converting the wks files
That section needs updating, I filed a correction for it a few months
ago.
Regarding saving files, it should say, save WPS files as RTF (this works
very well) and WKS files as XLS (Excel format): this isn't bad but some
Works formulae may need changing as Works and Calc don't evaluate some
things in the same way: Calc copies Excel's subtleties whilst Works
copies Lotus 1-2-3's. Whether this affects you or not will depend on how
intricate your formulae are. For example, cells containing formulae that
deliver null strings are treated as genuinely empty by Works but not by
Calc.
Regarding converters available from MS, these are addons for Word/Excel,
and thus are not any use unless you have MS Office installed. Contrary
to the impression given by the filenames of some of the downloads
available from MS, there are in fact no standalone file converters for
Works files. You must either resave your files from within Works, or
purchase MS Office and then use that to import/convert your Works files.
Either way there is no OOo equivalent to the Works database (WDB files),
which are probably best exported in either dBase or CSV format and then
opened in Calc or via OOo's data explorer. Only literal values will be
retained though - calculated fields will be replaced by values, and all
reports, field comments etc will be lost.
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