[Graham Mayor]

If you have all the converters installed, Word will read the file header and
choose the correct one. Note that Works and Word are not the same
applications and there will be some anomalies when the conversion is run.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


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Further to this, I have found the conv432 (or whatever it is) in the
right directory already, it having obviously been put there in the
early hours of this morning when I tried to add that feature, but the
actual file comes through with lots of garbage characters. I tried
saving as an htm file and then retrieving it and saving it as a doc
file. This worked 85% except that some paragraphs were jumbled up and
it will be somewhat painstaking checking all his original paragraphs
(from a print-out) against mine, and making the block moves required.
So the question now is: is a wps file always from works4 or could it
be another version? Any there ideas that will help me turn this 90
year old man's work from wps into doc will be very much appreciated.

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Hi Graham

This could be I want. It is to avoid having an elderly author retype
71,000 words! But I downloaded the converter zip file from your
website (greet site) and it appears to be for an earlier version of
the OS (I am using XP) eg it refers to Windows Explorer. It there an
exe file I can use on this works4 file or is it safe to meddle with
the registry? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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In order to open Works files, you need the correct filter for the
version of Works that created them. The filters are linked from the
downloads page of my web site.

Dangers? Probably none, though there is a minor and undisclosed
security risk to using the old filters..
Problems? The formatting may not be the same as the original
document and if you save using the wrong Works converter your
correspondent with Works 4 will not be able to open them.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
I am just about to get some .wps files to clean up, which seem to
be from Works4, but I haven't yet been sent the actual files. I
think the user had this package preloaded on his Dell, which he
bought a few years ago. A brief test shows I can make wps files
(using Word, after updating it, using the CD) and then I can read
these in Word. Does anyone know if there are lurking dangers?