lotus wordpro file conversion

[moik]

hello,

i've used lotus
products from 1992 through about 2002. i now have ten
years worth of stories, notes, fragments, journals,
letters, etc., etc. in formats that are unreadable by
any modern software. for example - i have 800 amipro
(*.sam) documents and 648 wordpro (*.lwp) documents.

we currently use ms office (on both mac and xp machines).


now that my wife and i are switching completely to mac
this is becoming a
real pain. on my old xp machine i just keep copies of
amipro and wordpro on the hard drive and when i want
to open an old doc i open it and save as *.rtf or
*.doc. but now i want to sell my old laptop while it
is still worth something.

the old amipro (*.sam) docs, believe it or not, arent as
big of a problem as the wordpro (*.lwp) documents. i
have a program called maclinkplus that will convert
them.

i really dont want to spend however much time it takes
to open and "save as" 1448 documents. does anybody out there know of
any script or program that can convert all this to
*.rtf or *.doc?

thanks,

moik

 

[JE McGimpsey]

hello,

i've used lotus
products from 1992 through about 2002. i now have ten
years worth of stories, notes, fragments, journals,
letters, etc., etc. in formats that are unreadable by
any modern software. for example - i have 800 amipro
(*.sam) documents and 648 wordpro (*.lwp) documents.

we currently use ms office (on both mac and xp machines).

While maclinkplus doesn't support .lwp, AFAIK, Dataviz's Conversions
Plus software for Windows does.

Other than that, the only solution I know of is to open the files with
Word using the Recover Text from any file mode, but that of course will
lose your formatting.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Yes, a WordPro macro would do this for you, but this is not the place to
come asking for WordPro macros The WordPro macro language is actually
Pascal, so practically any programmer could run one up for you.

However, I think you will find that for only 1400 documents it's quicker and
cheaper to do it by hand.

Cheers


This responds to article <[email protected]>,

hello,

i've used lotus
products from 1992 through about 2002. i now have ten
years worth of stories, notes, fragments, journals,
letters, etc., etc. in formats that are unreadable by
any modern software. for example - i have 800 amipro
(*.sam) documents and 648 wordpro (*.lwp) documents.

we currently use ms office (on both mac and xp machines).


now that my wife and i are switching completely to mac
this is becoming a
real pain. on my old xp machine i just keep copies of
amipro and wordpro on the hard drive and when i want
to open an old doc i open it and save as *.rtf or
*.doc. but now i want to sell my old laptop while it
is still worth something.

the old amipro (*.sam) docs, believe it or not, arent as
big of a problem as the wordpro (*.lwp) documents. i
have a program called maclinkplus that will convert
them.

i really dont want to spend however much time it takes
to open and "save as" 1448 documents. does anybody out there know of
any script or program that can convert all this to
*.rtf or *.doc?

thanks,

moik

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