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How can I transfer WS Professional docs to Word 2003?
I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text
processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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I've never heard of WordStar. Have you looked to see if there's a third
party converter available? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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How can I do that?
Pls help me! -- Almibar "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" escreveu: I've never heard of WordStar. Have you looked to see if there's a third party converter available? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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JoAnn, child, don't go showing off your youthful ignorance. :-) All of
us geezers remember WordStar, at least the CPM/DOS versions, with some fondness. Almibar, you're going to have a tough time with this. There's a converter from WordStar for DOS to Word at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm, but that probably isn't going to help much. Other than that, your main source of information will probably be http://www.wordstar.org/index.htm, and particularly http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm. Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to have much luck finding a batch converter; it will be a one-document-at-a-time job, if it works at all. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:59:14 -0400, "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: I've never heard of WordStar. Have you looked to see if there's a third party converter available? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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Use Google. Try WordStar + converter
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... How can I do that? Pls help me! -- Almibar "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" escreveu: I've never heard of WordStar. Have you looked to see if there's a third party converter available? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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Hi JoAnn,
I think I'm getting old. I've never heard of WordStar. Just for fun, ask e.g. in public.word.vba.general if anyone has ever heard of WordStar. I wonder what answers You will get. At Almibar: I changed my text processor to Word 2003. From Wordstar Pro to Word 2003? That must be almost a generation for humans! I don't get it. If no WordStar Pro to Word 2003 converter is to be found, I think, and if it is about a lot of money, one could built up a row of converters, if older ones exist, maybe on a row of different historical machines... Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Child? Having met you I'd say we're about the same age. :-)
I didn't start using computers until Word 4 or 4.5, something like that. I remember v5 being released. And then came Windows 3.1! GASP! -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... JoAnn, child, don't go showing off your youthful ignorance. :-) All of us geezers remember WordStar, at least the CPM/DOS versions, with some fondness. Almibar, you're going to have a tough time with this. There's a converter from WordStar for DOS to Word at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm, but that probably isn't going to help much. Other than that, your main source of information will probably be http://www.wordstar.org/index.htm, and particularly http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm. Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to have much luck finding a batch converter; it will be a one-document-at-a-time job, if it works at all. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:59:14 -0400, "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: I've never heard of WordStar. Have you looked to see if there's a third party converter available? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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Hence the smiley. Maybe it should have been ;-) or even ;-
-- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:48:55 -0400, "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: Child? Having met you I'd say we're about the same age. :-) I didn't start using computers until Word 4 or 4.5, something like that. I remember v5 being released. And then came Windows 3.1! GASP! -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . JoAnn, child, don't go showing off your youthful ignorance. :-) All of us geezers remember WordStar, at least the CPM/DOS versions, with some fondness. Almibar, you're going to have a tough time with this. There's a converter from WordStar for DOS to Word at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm, but that probably isn't going to help much. Other than that, your main source of information will probably be http://www.wordstar.org/index.htm, and particularly http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm. Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to have much luck finding a batch converter; it will be a one-document-at-a-time job, if it works at all. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:59:14 -0400, "JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]" wrote: I've never heard of WordStar. Have you looked to see if there's a third party converter available? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
JoAnn, child, don't go showing off your youthful ignorance. :-) All of us geezers remember WordStar, at least the CPM/DOS versions, with some fondness. Indeed  Almibar, you're going to have a tough time with this. There's a converter from WordStar for DOS to Word at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm, but that probably isn't going to help much. Oh ye of little faith. The converter works for the DOS versions of Wordstar. The Windows version of WordStar (spit) was not as I remember called Wordstar Professional. For the converter to recognise the files they must use the Wordstar filename extension ws. In the good old days of DOS you could get away with any extension. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Thank you for your help.
Greetins from Lisboa, Portugal -- Almibar "Helmut Weber" escreveu: Hi JoAnn, I think I'm getting old. I've never heard of WordStar. Just for fun, ask e.g. in public.word.vba.general if anyone has ever heard of WordStar. I wonder what answers You will get. At Almibar: I changed my text processor to Word 2003. From Wordstar Pro to Word 2003? That must be almost a generation for humans! I don't get it. If no WordStar Pro to Word 2003 converter is to be found, I think, and if it is about a lot of money, one could built up a row of converters, if older ones exist, maybe on a row of different historical machines... Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Thank you for your help. I'll follow your suggestion and wait for the result.
Greetings from Lisboa, Portugal -- Almibar "Graham Mayor" escreveu: Jay Freedman wrote: JoAnn, child, don't go showing off your youthful ignorance. :-) All of us geezers remember WordStar, at least the CPM/DOS versions, with some fondness. Indeed Almibar, you're going to have a tough time with this. There's a converter from WordStar for DOS to Word at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm, but that probably isn't going to help much. Oh ye of little faith. The converter works for the DOS versions of Wordstar. The Windows version of WordStar (spit) was not as I remember called Wordstar Professional. For the converter to recognise the files they must use the Wordstar filename extension ws. In the good old days of DOS you could get away with any extension. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Thank you for your help.
Greetings from Lisboa, Portugal -- Almibar "Helmut Weber" escreveu: Hi JoAnn, I think I'm getting old. I've never heard of WordStar. Just for fun, ask e.g. in public.word.vba.general if anyone has ever heard of WordStar. I wonder what answers You will get. At Almibar: I changed my text processor to Word 2003. From Wordstar Pro to Word 2003? That must be almost a generation for humans! I don't get it. If no WordStar Pro to Word 2003 converter is to be found, I think, and if it is about a lot of money, one could built up a row of converters, if older ones exist, maybe on a row of different historical machines... Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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Didn't WS Pro have a .RTF file format in the Save As? MS Word
can read those files. That assumes you still have it installed of course. You could also look at what Word can import/Open, and at what WS can Save As/Export, if you still have it on your machine. There are converters available, and they're not perfect, but they are better than some of the alternatives. Pop "almibar" wrote in message ... :I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text : processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its : transfer? : Thanks : -- : Almibar |
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StarOffice 5.2 can convert WordStar documents, however, I do not have any WordStar documents to test it on.
I know this as I downloaded and tried it a long time ago when Sun Microsystems offered it for free. Assuming that you have the free version of StarOffice 5.2 for Windows somewhere, run so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en.exe Or if you had downloaded each individual part, run: so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-000.exe For the parts installer to work, you will need these files: so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-001.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-002.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-003.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-004.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-005.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-006.bin so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-007.bin In addition, you might also want/need: StarOffice 5.2 Player sop-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en.exe Database (Adabas D) soa-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en.exe You can find more information about StarOffice he http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/ -- Please post all replies to the newsgroup for the benefit of others. Requests for assistance by email will NOT be acknowledged! "almibar" wrote in message ... I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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How can I transfer WS Professional docs to Word 2003?
"almibar" wrote: I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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How can I transfer WS Professional docs to Word 2003?
Not knowing specific Wordstar version it's hard to say but perhaps one of
the converters from Graham Mayor's site will do the job: http://gmayor.com/downloads.htm If not have a look at at Conversions Pus for DataViz: http://www.dataviz.com/products/conv...lus/index.html HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/13/08 10:11 AM, in article , "Borderman" wrote: "almibar" wrote: I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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How can I transfer WS Professional docs to Word 2003?
The Wordstar converter on my web site will work with the DOS versions of
Wordstar from version 3.3 to 7. However it relies on the filename extension to identify the file type (looking for WS) and one of the 'features' of DOS word processors was that you could happily use any extension. The download text file suggests renaming the files, but you could, from the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item, which will cause file open prompt for the converter to use. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org CyberTaz wrote: Not knowing specific Wordstar version it's hard to say but perhaps one of the converters from Graham Mayor's site will do the job: http://gmayor.com/downloads.htm If not have a look at at Conversions Pus for DataViz: http://www.dataviz.com/products/conv...lus/index.html HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/13/08 10:11 AM, in article , "Borderman" wrote: "almibar" wrote: I have a lot of documents in Wordstar Professional and I changed my text processor to Word 2003. As I still need those documents, how can I do its transfer? Thanks -- Almibar |
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