MS-Works 6 to MS-Word X converter??

[XXP]

We're receiving a few documents from MS-Works. Mostly (apparently)
Works v 6.

There is a converter in the Windows world, available from Microsoft,
that plugs into Word 2K and up, but I haven't been able to find one
for Word-X.

Is there one? Does anyone know of a Works -> Word (or RTF) converter?
Microsoft or otherwise?

Thanks. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated very much.

 

[Stephen Adams]

We're receiving a few documents from MS-Works. Mostly (apparently)
Works v 6.

There is a converter in the Windows world, available from Microsoft,
that plugs into Word 2K and up, but I haven't been able to find one
for Word-X.

Is there one? Does anyone know of a Works -> Word (or RTF) converter?
Microsoft or otherwise?

Thanks. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated very much.

DataViz sells the commercial application MacLinkPlus that may do the
trick ($79.95 full or $39.95 upgrade):
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html

I vaguely remember a Linux command line utility that could convert Word
documents into RTF, plain text, or whatever. I cannot remember the name
of the utility and even if I could, I don't know if such a beast has
been ported to Mac OS X/Darwin (to use from within Terminal.app). That
would be a no-cost way of converting your files, though I'm not sure how
pretty they'd come out of the conversion.

Steve

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Stephen:

It's great that you took the time to stop and be helpful. We really
appreciate that

However, if I may, I would like to suggest that for your next answer, if you
can spare the time, please look up to ensure that your suggestion is
correct.

One of MY worst sins in here is to fire off an answer telling the original
poster what I "think" is true without bothering to check. It gets them (and
me...) into all sorts of trouble Some of the posters here are very
inexperienced computer users who will waste time, money, or get into trouble
if we start telling them things that are not entirely true in every detail.

In this case, MacLink Plus will not go higher than Windows Works 95. The
original poster needs Works 6... As he pointed out, the free converter
offered here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9e11e83-f51b-4977-
b572-8c042df802c1&displaylang=en

Will decode Works 6, but it requires a copy of Word 97 or above.

There are no Linux utilities that can convert FROM Works to Word. There are
some that can convert FROM Word 6 format, but not the current (Word 8
format).

Stephen, please hang around: we need your help

Hope this helps

DataViz sells the commercial application MacLinkPlus that may do the
trick ($79.95 full or $39.95 upgrade):
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/mlp_xlators.html

I vaguely remember a Linux command line utility that could convert Word
documents into RTF, plain text, or whatever. I cannot remember the name
of the utility and even if I could, I don't know if such a beast has
been ported to Mac OS X/Darwin (to use from within Terminal.app). That
would be a no-cost way of converting your files, though I'm not sure how
pretty they'd come out of the conversion.

Steve

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[Beth Rosengard]

If you're still around to read this, check out
<http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/>

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[Beth Rosengard]

My apologies. I see this has already been answered wrongly once and I just
did it again. Sorry!

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