At 17:07 27/08/2008 -0400, Gail Noname wrote:
I just installed the open office software, I was told to get this because I need to convert as extension of .wps to .doc, and I do not know where or what to do to covert this.
I think you may have been misled: your .wps file is probably a Microsoft Works word processor file, and OpenOffice does not open these.
I get an error message saying (that this file needs to be opened up by the works 6.0 text converter).
I don't think that this is an OpenOffice error message, in fact - so I think you must be double-clicking your document file and seeing an error message from some other application - in which it opens.
The file I am trying to convert is Gail's Resume.wps to Gail's Resume.doc. Please advise on where or how I convert this over. I have Windows XP.
Can you return to your copy of Works or borrow someone else's or ask your correspondent to do so (as appropriate)? If so, you can save the document from Works directly in Microsoft Word (.doc) format.
If not, there is a neat workaround (since you are using Windows). 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 a new OpenOffice Writer document. This will preserve most of the formatting, at least. Save that in .doc format if necessary.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
