converting wps files

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nelsh

My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the files
on our old Windows 97 machine.
I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same character,
kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
character.
Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
format?
 
You can open those files with Word Viewer 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&DisplayLang=en


My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the files
on our old Windows 97 machine.
I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same character,
kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
character.
Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
format?
 
nelsh said:
My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the
files
on our old Windows 97 machine.
I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same
character,
kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
character.
Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
format?
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Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have. Many
of these are not installed by default.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick said:
Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have.
Many
of these are not installed by default.

HTH
-pk
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OR they may be Microsoft Works files. (.wps is the file extension used by
Microsoft Works word processor documents, at least in the older versions).
 
Bill in Co. said:
OR they may be Microsoft Works files. (.wps is the file extension used
by Microsoft Works word processor documents, at least in the older
versions).
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Yep, you're right. Same comments about conversion filters apply.
 
Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have. Many
of these are not installed by default.
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No, WordPerfect Documents are .wpd, not .wps.
Wps are MS Works files.

....Alan
 
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