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How do I convert Word 5.0B files to Office 2003? I have just recently upgraded my computer and can no longer use Word 5.0B.
 
Bob said:
How do I convert Word 5.0B files to Office 2003? I have just recently upgraded my computer and can no longer use Word 5.0B.
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What happens when you try to open the files in Word 2003?
 
When I open a file, I get long strings of graphic characters between words and text. It takes a great deal of time to go through my documents to remove these characters. Also, I have many chemical formulas in my text and all the superscripts and subscripts appear as normal characters
Bob
 
Bob said:
When I open a file, I get long strings of graphic characters between words and text. It takes a great deal of time to go through my documents to remove these characters. Also, I have many chemical formulas in my text and all the superscripts and subscripts appear as normal characters.
Bob
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Maybe the easies thing to do is re-load Word 5 onto your machine and
save into RTF, Word 2 or some other format that your Word 2003 can
recognize. Experiment.

Also check to ensure that you installed the Word 5 filters into your
Word 2003.

From the specs and by inspection of the File Save/As menu where the
filter for Word 5 is present, Word 2003 should be able to open Word 5
files.
 
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When I open a file, I get long strings of graphic characters between words and text. It takes a great deal of time to go through my documents to remove these characters. Also, I have many chemical formulas in my text and all the superscripts and subscripts appear as normal characters.
Bob
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Maybe the easies thing to do is re-load Word 5 onto your machine and
save into RTF, Word 2 or some other format that your Word 2003 can
recognize. Experiment.

Also check to ensure that you installed the Word 5 filters into your
Word 2003.

From the specs and by inspection of the File Save/As menu where the
filter for Word 5 is present, Word 2003 should be able to open Word 5
files.

Thanks Rob for your help. I was told, although I haven't tried it, that I can't install MS word 5.0B on my computer because Word 5 is a DOS program and won't run under XP. Otherwise I would convert the files to RTF. I was running Word 5 under windows 95, but now I've up graded to a new computer with XP. I like it, but I'm running into some difficulties with my old programs. Thanks for your suggestion.
 
Bob said:
----- Rob Schneider wrote: -----


Maybe the easies thing to do is re-load Word 5 onto your machine and
save into RTF, Word 2 or some other format that your Word 2003 can
recognize. Experiment.

Also check to ensure that you installed the Word 5 filters into your
Word 2003.

From the specs and by inspection of the File Save/As menu where the
filter for Word 5 is present, Word 2003 should be able to open Word 5
files.

Thanks Rob for your help. I was told, although I haven't tried it, that I can't install MS word 5.0B on my computer because Word 5 is a DOS program and won't run under XP. Otherwise I would convert the files to RTF. I was running Word 5 under windows 95, but now I've up graded to a new computer with XP. I like it, but I'm running into some difficulties with my old programs. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Older DOS Programs will work in XP. Try it. See what happens. Install
via the Compatibility wizard.

Or find a Windows 95 machine that has Word 5, or you can put Word 5 on it.

I don't agree that Word 2003 *should* be able to deal with Word 5 files.
Word 2003 does what it does. Word 5 is very old. The fact is that
with old software you have to sometimes jump through hoops. Things
changed very fast in that era and impossible to keep everything alive
forever.
 
I do have access to a 95 machine and I can put Word 5 on it. I really don't expect new software to be downward compatible for ever. At some point a line has to be drawn. I was just hoping that there may have been a way to read these files. Thanks for the help, Rob .
 
Thanks Graham, you've saved me a lot of work and time. The conversion file works beautifully. Thanks again,
Bob
 
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