Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:01 28/11/2008 -0800, Stan Noname wrote:
How do I get OpenOffice Writer 3.0.0 to open Microsoft Works 7.0
(.wps) files.
The simple answer is that you don't.
I can't find anything in the Writer "filter selection" that works.
That's because there isn't.
Can you return to your copy of Works or borrow someone else's
installation or ask your correspondent to do so (as appropriate)? If
so, you can save the document from Works directly in Microsoft Word
(.doc) format - and OpenOffice can open and use that.
If not, there may be a neat workaround. Are you using Windows? (You
kept that bit a secret!) If so, download and install the free viewer
for Microsoft Word document files from the Microsoft web site. Open
your Works file in this. (It accepts Works files.) Select all the
text and copy-and-paste it directly into a new OpenOffice Writer
document. This will preserve most of the formatting, at least.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Works? or does it. . .
It use to be that when you get a new Windows computer you get a trial
version of MS Office. Now I have found that more and more new computers
do not have that software installed, BUT they are given a free full version
of Works. The last two I bought was bundled this way. I un-installed it
both times.
I love the fact that you can get a viewer for many of MS's office-like
products
so we can view/cut/paste those pesky files into OpenOffice.org [ if we
cannot
read them in directly ].
I know of one business that uses Works as its main office package. I
am slowly convincing them to switch to OOo. It is hard to convince
a business owner who thinks that MS Works is great for business use.
My advice to you is get the person to try OOo. Give them a free CD with
it on, plus the PDF document files from the web site. Also there are some
great free sites that are tutorials "in pictures". That is how I do
it. "Works"
most of the time. FREE is a great word to convince people to switch.
Tim L.
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