Cannot open word 97 docs in Vista 2007 works

[mmkn]

I had Microsoft Office 97 on my old computer, I saved everything on CDs and
now I cannot open anything with a doc extension on my new computer with
Vista. Is there any way to convert the docs to open?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have Word with the Vista Works program?

Copy the files to the hard drive and try again.

 

[Bob I]

What application do you have installed that opens Word documents?

 

[mmkn]

Works does not have word. I don't have any application now that I could use
to open the doc exts. I saw a works viewer on microsoft website.

 

[Bob I]

Maybe you can use the Word 2003 viewer to copy your documents to Works
document?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

 

[mmkn]

Do you have Word with the Vista Works program?

Copy the files to the hard drive and try again.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[mmkn]

My Vista Works program does not have word.

Do you have Word with the Vista Works program?

Copy the files to the hard drive and try again.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[LVTravel]

Since your version of Works does not have Word or any other program that
will open a .DOC file, you may try using Open Office (version 2.2) which
will open and edit most .doc files.

Look here for the free download. http://download.openoffice.org/index.html