On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 03:26 +0000, Shez wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dipa quoted: > > > >"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. >
As you can see working with Works files has not been possible. Nonetheless, one of our users has contributed a workaround for Windows users. I have placed the text in Chapter 14 and created a faq item. You may have some delay as the webpages are updated. HTH -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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