Offie 97 in Place of works

[dennis]

I have updated a friends computer to Office 97 and in his
haste he removed MS Works even though he has many files
written in Works. Now all his documents are opening in
photviewer??? Is there any way of automating the
conversion so that all files appear as a MS Word (Office
97) file?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Dennis,

It depends on the version of Works.
MS Word can open .WPS works files and newer versions
of Works produce spreadsheets that can be opened in
Excel, while older versions need a 3rd party converter.

Works .WDB databases are generally not supported other
than as mailmerge data sources if they contain no
calculated fields.

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I have updated a friends computer to Office 97 and in his
haste he removed MS Works even though he has many files
written in Works. Now all his documents are opening in
photviewer??? Is there any way of automating the
conversion so that all files appear as a MS Word (Office
97) file? >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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