My old computer ran Windows 3.11. My new computer has Word 2003. I loaded the
saved files from disc but cannot open them. How can I convert the files so
they can be read and used further?

Save it in RTF format

"jowenmilo" wrote:

My old computer ran Windows 3.11. My new computer has Word 2003. I loaded the
saved files from disc but cannot open them. How can I convert the files so
they can be read and used further?

Windows 3.11 is an operating system. Word is a word processor. The question
therefore doesn't make sense.
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. This is equally relevant to other
removable media such as CDRW.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


jowenmilo wrote:
My old computer ran Windows 3.11. My new computer has Word 2003. I
loaded the saved files from disc but cannot open them. How can I
convert the files so they can be read and used further?

The files were evidently created by a DOS version of Word. If version 6.0 or
later, you should be able to simply open the files with Word 2003. If the
files were created by an earlier version of Word, go to

http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm

and download the appropriate converter.

Regards |:)

"jowenmilo" wrote:

My old computer ran Windows 3.11. My new computer has Word 2003. I loaded the
saved files from disc but cannot open them. How can I convert the files so
they can be read and used further?