opening old MS Word for Mac documents

[stevenmarx73638]

I have many Word documents I cannot open on my present OSX.4.11
PowerBook G4 computer. All of them are from November 1992 and
before. I can open all later documents. The earlier documents can
open in Word or Text edit, but they only show the greeting of the
letter or the first few words of the document and then revert to
gibberish. Its hard for me to accept that all that historical
material is now lost forever.

Thanks

 

[Michel Bintener]

You could buy MacLink Plus, as it can open older Word formats (all the way
down to Word 4). Also, some older Word for Windows application might be able
to open them.

<http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/>

I have many Word documents I cannot open on my present OSX.4.11
PowerBook G4 computer. All of them are from November 1992 and
before. I can open all later documents. The earlier documents can
open in Word or Text edit, but they only show the greeting of the
letter or the first few words of the document and then revert to
gibberish. Its hard for me to accept that all that historical
material is now lost forever.

Thanks

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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