On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:22:05 +0000 Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:47 25/02/2007 -0500, Graham Whitehead wrote: > >I have recently changed my computer, and I have a lot of files from > >my old PC which were created using the Microsoft works word > >processor. How do I open these? > > Conversion problems such as this are always best solved by saving > documents in a suitable exchange format at the sending end rather > than trying to import the existing format at the receiving end. So > if you can, go back to your old computer and use Works to save the > documents in a suitable format, e.g. Word, Rich Text Format, or plain > text. You can then easily open these in OpenOffice. > > If you cannot, here is one rather inelegant workaround: > > o Download and install the (freeware) Microsoft Office Word Viewer > 2003 from the Microsoft web site. (You will need this anyway, along > with the similar Excel and Powerpoint viewers, if you are using > OpenOffice.) o Open your Works files in this viewer. (The Word Viewer > 2003 will read and display Works files, unlike the earlier 97 viewer, > which didn't.) o Select the entire document and copy the selection. > o Open OpenOffice Writer and paste into a new document. > o Save this as an OpenOffice document.
Excellent Brian, best reply to this commonly asked question i have seen to date. Now wheres the FAQ maintainer. http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/word_processing/051.html Points to a non existant chapter in the latest docs. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
