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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