Have you tried?

If needed, change the extension on a copy of the file to .doc. Open it.

Note, do not work with removable media from Word. This means floppies, CDR,
memory sticks. Put the file on your hard drive.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

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"Convert old files" Convert old wrote in
message ...
Once upon a time... I used the old Word 5.0 for DOS, without any "Windows"
programms. Now I would like to convert these old files in the Word 97
format,
without loosing any formatation: Footnotes, Pages, Indexes etc. Do I have
a
chance?