Wps file

[Blair Nelsen]

Anyone know how to open a .wps file on a Mac? I cannot open it with Word or
TextEdit. Any suggestions?

 

[Michel Bintener]

A .wps file is a file created by Microsoft Works, and I'm afraid it's not a
very common file format. You can open it with Microsoft Works (later
versions are Windows-only, I'm afraid), and there's a commercial solution by
Dataviz called MacLink Plus that can take care of many file formats, but
unless opening .wps files is something you need to do on a regular basis,
it's probably not worth the expense.

Anyone know how to open a .wps file on a Mac? I cannot open it with Word or
TextEdit. Any suggestions?

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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Clive Huggan]

Or if the opportunity still exists to have the originator save the file as
RTF, that would side-step the problem.

(I hope I'm right in thinking that Rich Text Format is one of Works' options
for Save As ­ it's been some time...).

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[CyberTaz]

As a last resort you might try opening a copy of the file with Word using
File>Open ­ Enable: Recover Text From Any File.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Blair:

Send that to anyone you know with a PC copy of Word. PC Word has a
converter for Works in it...

Cheers

Anyone know how to open a .wps file on a Mac? I cannot open it with Word or
TextEdit. Any suggestions?

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