You can download a converter here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B9E11E83-F51B-4977-B572-8C042DF802C1&displaylang=EN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] MS Works problem
> As you have no doubt noticed, MS never provided support to migrate
> from their OWN older Works program versions to Word...
> (At least none that I was ever able to locate, and I have been on the
> look out for years...)
>
> I had this problem with either Works v2 or 3. (I forget.) And then again
> with 4.0 IIRC... (Ver 4 came with/on a computer I returned somewhere,
> so I do not have that version...)
> All this drove me into WordPerfect at the time.
> (Not exactly what MS had in mind I am sure...)
> I forget if "that" converted them or not. This goes back almost 12
> years...
>
> You "might" have to either install an older version of Works somewhere,
> (the version used to create them), maybe on an older machine you have
> somewhere?, or dig up someone with the proper version installed and
> have them convert them to something Word will be able to use...
> Every computer I ever owned is still "running(?)" here, except the first
> one.
> It was a Dell, and never worked properly from the day it was built...
> (They tried exceptionally hard to fix it, but that experience turned me
> into an OEM builder...)
>
> If you want, contact me OFFLIST about sending me a sample of ONE
> specific file you can't open... Contact me before you send anything...
>
> I think I used to use a very old version of a third party "QuickView"
> program to at least "see" what I could not natively open...
>
> Rick Glazier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
>> There is a converter for Works available at:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B9E11E83-F51B-4977-B572-8C042DF802C1&displaylang=EN
>>
>> Ron wrote:
>>>The old PC had Windows 98se installed plus MS Works. My problem now is
>>>this.
>>>In order to save the files stored in Works on the old PC, the technician
>>>included
>>>MS Works on the new PC which came with Word and Excel.
>>>Only a portion of my files on MS Works are now available.
>>>The balance of those files were grouped under a folder entitled OldHD.
>>>Regrettably Works cannot find them and Word and Excel don't convert these
>>>files normally.
>>>All that comes up are little blank squares or blank squares and
>>>gibberish.
>
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