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NEED to open Word 8.0 on PC - Word 2003!!
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Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie |
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MacWord 8 was Word 98, and it's the same file format as WinWord. Making sure
the file has the .doc extension or using File | Open from within Word should work fine. On 4/4/05 8:49 AM, "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi Laurie,
MS Word 98 (v8) for the MAC is comparable to Windows Word 97 (v8) and stil uses the same basic file format through MS Word 2003 (v11). There may an issue if you are using a MAC formatted PC that isn't compatible with the Windows disk format in which case you may need a 3rd party disk conversion/ reader utility to move the files to your hard drive. If you can copy the document file to your hard drive turn on [x] Confirm Conversions on open in Tools=Options=General before you use File=Open in Word 2003. What file format does Word 2003 'see'? ======= "laurie_g" wrote in message ... Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Office 2003 Editions explained http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx |
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No it doesn't work. Text comes out as gibberish. Even tried opening in RTF...
some of that is legible but not all. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: MacWord 8 was Word 98, and it's the same file format as WinWord. Making sure the file has the .doc extension or using File | Open from within Word should work fine. On 4/4/05 8:49 AM, "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi Laurie-
Opening the files should not be a problem. Copy them to your hard drive as a precaution. From within Word go to your Open dialog box & navigate to the folder where you stored the copies. If they appear, open as normal. If not, at the bottom of the Open db select Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh (*.doc). If you still can't see them, post back with detailed results. Just keep in mind that being able to open them doesn't mean they will look exactly as you might expect. Some reformatting may be necessary, but the content should be intact. HTH |:) "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie |
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Hi
I appreciate all the help I'm receiving to this post. I've already copied the files to the hard drive. I've opened Word and then selected Word 6.0/95 for Windows and Macintosh but then the files become unavailable. The closest I've come to opening is "recover text from any file". This is a science fair project from a student. She'd emailed it to herself here at school because her printer broke at home. She may have to salvage what she can from the "recover..." text that I've managed to get. thanks again laurie "CyberTaz" wrote: Hi Laurie- Opening the files should not be a problem. Copy them to your hard drive as a precaution. From within Word go to your Open dialog box & navigate to the folder where you stored the copies. If they appear, open as normal. If not, at the bottom of the Open db select Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh (*.doc). If you still can't see them, post back with detailed results. Just keep in mind that being able to open them doesn't mean they will look exactly as you might expect. Some reformatting may be necessary, but the content should be intact. HTH |:) "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie |
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Did that. The closest I can get is "recover text from any file"... but there
are pages of code with the odd paragraph that is legible text. Will keep trying. Thanks. "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Laurie, MS Word 98 (v8) for the MAC is comparable to Windows Word 97 (v8) and stil uses the same basic file format through MS Word 2003 (v11). There may an issue if you are using a MAC formatted PC that isn't compatible with the Windows disk format in which case you may need a 3rd party disk conversion/ reader utility to move the files to your hard drive. If you can copy the document file to your hard drive turn on [x] Confirm Conversions on open in Tools=Options=General before you use File=Open in Word 2003. What file format does Word 2003 'see'? ======= "laurie_g" wrote in message ... Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Office 2003 Editions explained http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx |
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Hello Again-
Looks like I was crawling along the keyboard while a few others were offering much the same. Didn't realize you had gone to such extents until I read back a few minutes ago. If you still have the original Mac files on a Mac-formatted disk you might want to take a look at; http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/ which is relatively inexpensive if you are as desperate as you say, and it _may_ help. I can't remember if there was anything about earlier Word versions that generated resource forks on Mac files, but if so that could be the problem. Unfortunately even a program such as mentioned above will not help once the files have been copied to a PC formatted disk because PCs don't support resorce forks at all. They simply get ignored when copied to PC-formatted media. Good Luck |:) "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie |
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Thanks will give it a try.
"CyberTaz" wrote: Hello Again- Looks like I was crawling along the keyboard while a few others were offering much the same. Didn't realize you had gone to such extents until I read back a few minutes ago. If you still have the original Mac files on a Mac-formatted disk you might want to take a look at; http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/ which is relatively inexpensive if you are as desperate as you say, and it _may_ help. I can't remember if there was anything about earlier Word versions that generated resource forks on Mac files, but if so that could be the problem. Unfortunately even a program such as mentioned above will not help once the files have been copied to a PC formatted disk because PCs don't support resorce forks at all. They simply get ignored when copied to PC-formatted media. Good Luck |:) "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie |
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There are a couple of other issues to explore here also.
1. Never ever read from, write to or print from floppy with Word. This is the most certain method of ensuring document corruption. Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there. If the document has already been opened from that floppy it will probably be necessary to begin again. If copying to floppy do so from the hard drive and not from Word. If the original document is still intact then it should be possible to do something with it. 2. Uncompressed Word documents sent by e-mail are frequently corrupted. Get your correspondent to resend the document in a compressed format - on the PC Winzip would do the trick, but I have no knowledge of macs so do not know what format could be used that Windows could de-compress. If you wish, you could e-mail it (the original) too me via the link on my web site. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laurie_g wrote: Hi I appreciate all the help I'm receiving to this post. I've already copied the files to the hard drive. I've opened Word and then selected Word 6.0/95 for Windows and Macintosh but then the files become unavailable. The closest I've come to opening is "recover text from any file". This is a science fair project from a student. She'd emailed it to herself here at school because her printer broke at home. She may have to salvage what she can from the "recover..." text that I've managed to get. thanks again laurie "CyberTaz" wrote: Hi Laurie- Opening the files should not be a problem. Copy them to your hard drive as a precaution. From within Word go to your Open dialog box & navigate to the folder where you stored the copies. If they appear, open as normal. If not, at the bottom of the Open db select Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh (*.doc). If you still can't see them, post back with detailed results. Just keep in mind that being able to open them doesn't mean they will look exactly as you might expect. Some reformatting may be necessary, but the content should be intact. HTH |:) "laurie_g" wrote: Hello Is there any way that I can open a Word file created on a MAC (Word 8.0) on my PC (Word 2003)??? I no longer have access to the Mac and am desperate to open these files. Is there a MAC-PC converter out there that I don't know about? Thanks Laurie |
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