How to read OneNote files created in XP on a Mac

[m61376]

I have OneNote files created in Office 2003 on a PC running XP professional.
I want to transfer them to a Mac and be able to read them.

Is there a way to directly do this? The laptop that the files are on is
currently broken so I would be having the data transferred off the hard
drive, so converting the files in a PC would be an issue and would be a last
resort, since it would involve transferring them to another PC, converting
them to Word and then transferring them to the new Mac. The company the Mac
is being purchased from is willing to transfer the data files from the old
hard drive, so a direct transfer would be ideal if there was a way to do that.

Thanks for the help!!

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

You would need to install OneNote on the Mac, but it only runs under Windows
so....do you have Parallels or Bootcamp or one of the other Windows VMs
available?

Otherwise you'd need to use a PC to open them and convert to Word or, if you
just need to read them, save them as HTML files.

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[m61376]

I was afraid of that :-(.
This will be a new Mac machine, and I wasn't intending to run Bootcamp,
My situation is this- the PC laptop is broken (it turns on, loads Windows,
but shuts off after a few minutes) but hopefully the hard drive is
salvageable. The company I am purchasing the Mac from will transfer the data
files off of my old hard drive (it is actually my daughter's laptop, and she
never backed up her files. All her law school files are in Onenote). If the
data files are transferred onto the Mac, would I then be able to burn them to
a dvd (even though I can't actually open them on the Mac), read that dvd in a
PC that has Onenote and Word, and then convert them into Word files and then
re-transfer them onto the Mac?

Using Onenote 2003, can the Onenote files simply be "saved as" a Word file,
or must each file be copied and pasted into Word?

Sounds like a day's job :-( - but is that doable?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Yes, burning the files to a CD/DVD or copying them to a USB-stick or an
external HDD and thereafter opening them on a PC with ON should be a
viable way.

Rainald