Office 98->Office 2004 Conversion

[mph66]

Hi,

I have a client who has a LARGE amount of Word 98 documents and needs to migrate them to 2004. I've searched everywhere to no avail. I'm hoping there is some simple conversion tool that can be used. When she tries to do "FILE->OPEN" in 2004, it won't let her see or open the Word 98 files. This client is a writer and *needs* these documents in working order ASAP.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Word 98 and Word 2004 use the *exact* same file format, no conversion
necessary. I open Word files from Word 6/95, 98, and 2001 in Word 2004
all the time. There must be some other issue causing the problem.

Are you sure they are Word 98 files?

Tell her to try:

1) right-click a Word file and select Open With Word 2004

2) dragging the icon of a Word file and dropping it on the Word 2004
icon in the Dock.

3) just double-clicking.

 

[mph66]

I think the problem stems from Word 98 being run under OS 9. It's not seeing the files in OS X as anything other than "gray" icons. Won't open them no matter which method I try.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Running Word 98 under OS 9 shouldn't make a difference if you are
looking at the file icons in the OS X desktop/finder.

Are they dark gray icons that look like the terminal screen or
something? Try adding .doc to the end of the filename of a few of them
and see if that works.

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Hi,

I have a client who has a LARGE amount of Word 98 documents and needs to
migrate them to 2004. I've searched everywhere to no avail. I'm hoping there
is some simple conversion tool that can be used. When she tries to do
"FILE->OPEN" in 2004, it won't let her see or open the Word 98 files. This
client is a writer and *needs* these documents in working order ASAP.

PMFJI, but office applications do not need a file extension. This is only
for use of the operating system to associate the file with an application.
As Diane said, no conversion between these files is necessary. Try file-Open
again, and this time pull down the file type selector to all files. Can you
open the file then?