On 2005-12-04, Andrew Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just loaded Open Office for someone who used Microsoft Works. It > seems that *.wps files are not openable in anything.
Nothing but Microsoft Works, anyway. That's the problem with these closed, proprietary formats. Once they go out of favor you have no easy way of accessing the information in that format. Once people embrace open formats such as OpenDocument, supported by OOo, koffice, and other packages, this won't be such a show-stopper. > I use Lotus Word which will not open them either. Is is possible to open > either Works or > LPS files with Open Office? Not easily. You can use a program like Unix "strings" to extract the text information and save it in a plain text file, but you'll lose any formatting information. Otherwise, you'll have to open the files in their native program (Works and WordPro) and save them in .rtf format for OOo to read. This will preserve most, but not necessarily all of the formatting. -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
