I'm trying to convert old files from Lotus WordPro into Word documents, or at
least open them up in Word. Apparently older versions of Word could do this,
but I haven't found anything about doing it in Word 2003. Any help would be
much appreciated.

Double-clicking on the Lotus icons probably won't work. Word is usually a
very good converter, but you must open the Lotus files from within the Word
application by using File-Open. In the "Files of Type" drop-down list, be
sure to select "All Files." Once you open them, save them at once as Word
files.

"yetiboy" wrote in message
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I'm trying to convert old files from Lotus WordPro into Word documents, or
at
least open them up in Word. Apparently older versions of Word could do
this,
but I haven't found anything about doing it in Word 2003. Any help would
be
much appreciated.

Sorry, I wasn't clear with my question apparently. It's not a matter of going
through the normal save process, the files can't be opened. Word doesn't
recognize Lotus Wordpro files, at least not Word 2003. When trying to open
the files, the only option is to choose the encoding that makes the document
readable - none do, as the only options are for languages, not for file
types. Obviously, the issue is not the language. What I need is a file
converter.

brad

"Richard Neville" wrote:

Double-clicking on the Lotus icons probably won't work. Word is usually a
very good converter, but you must open the Lotus files from within the Word
application by using File-Open. In the "Files of Type" drop-down list, be
sure to select "All Files." Once you open them, save them at once as Word
files.

"yetiboy" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to convert old files from Lotus WordPro into Word documents, or
at
least open them up in Word. Apparently older versions of Word could do
this,
but I haven't found anything about doing it in Word 2003. Any help would
be
much appreciated.

There is no converter for WordPro in Word. There are some third party tools
available if you search the web.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/conv...translist.html

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




yetiboy wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't clear with my question apparently. It's not a matter
of going through the normal save process, the files can't be opened.
Word doesn't recognize Lotus Wordpro files, at least not Word 2003.
When trying to open the files, the only option is to choose the
encoding that makes the document readable - none do, as the only
options are for languages, not for file types. Obviously, the issue
is not the language. What I need is a file converter.

brad

"Richard Neville" wrote:

Double-clicking on the Lotus icons probably won't work. Word is
usually a very good converter, but you must open the Lotus files
from within the Word application by using File-Open. In the "Files
of Type" drop-down list, be sure to select "All Files." Once you
open them, save them at once as Word files.

"yetiboy" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to convert old files from Lotus WordPro into Word
documents, or at
least open them up in Word. Apparently older versions of Word could
do this,
but I haven't found anything about doing it in Word 2003. Any help
would be
much appreciated.