open a Works file attached to email with Word

[Black River]

I am unable to open a Works file attached to an email with my MS Word
Program, 2002 version. Any suggestions?

 

[Paul Ballou]

Works Word processing files need to be saved in RTF Rich Text Format in
order to be opened in Word. Have the sender save the file in this format.

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[Rob Schneider]

Paul,

My version of Word 2003 can read/write multiple versions of Microsoft
Works files, and Microsoft Works can read/write multiple versions of
Word files. Why need to use RTF?

 

[Paul Ballou]

RTF is the most compatible file format between the Word and Works

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[Rob Schneider]

Paul,

Oh. So in other words, the Works/Word conversion filters are unreliable
or buggy?

 

[Paul Ballou]

Rob,
Some formats are more compatible than others between different programs
that doesn't mean a conversion filter is buggy or unreliable. Experiment
then you can find out for yourself which format is most compatible between
Works and Word.

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[Rob Schneider]

Actually, I don't use Works and don't have need to convert. However, I
notice a significant number of peole asking here or elsewhere how to do
it, and more often than not the advice is doing something other than
using native Word or Works format ... So many people expect to hear a
complex answer, and more often than not the complex answer is given.

Being inquisitive, I've tried simply opening Works in Word, and visa
versa, and "it just works".

Hence wondering, why go to complexity of something else?

I guess I'm still not sure I've gotten to the bottom of it, but I guess
until I experience otherwise, I'd tell people to "just open in what you
have and it should work". Curious why this expectation not the "norm".
Why can't we expect it to "just work"?

Computers and people are funny beasts, I guess.