At 12:01 01/04/2007 -0400, Mike McCluskey wrote:
Hi, I have received a [Microsoft Works] .wps document in an email and can't open it in OpenOffice. I tried the file conversion wizard but nothing shown for MS Works docs. Any ideas?
Conversion problems such as this are always much more easily and effectively handled at the sending end rather than the receiving end. Your correspondent should be selecting a suitable format for you to accept rather than expecting you to cope with whatever s/he sends. So your first and simplest solution is to ask the sender to save the file from Works and send it again in a usable format. These include Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and even plain text (.txt). Alternatively, you may be able to find someone else with Works installed who is prepared to convert the file to one of these formats for you.
But there is neat workaround. 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 into OpenOffice Writer. This will preserve most of the formatting, at least.
By the way, every user of OpenOffice should install the free viewers from Microsoft for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files, as it is easier and better to display and print files you receive this way than by opening them as if for editing in OpenOffice.
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