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Can I transfer MS Works Word Processer files to OpenOffice?

Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:32 pm

Well, um, I asked the question in the title... Can I, and how? I did a mass tranfer from Claris Works to MS Works a few years back, and it was annoying... I saved as text files, had to manually remove all the quotes that turned into dollar signs and percent signs, and I had to reformat all of my files manually... IT was a big pain... I'd appreciate not having to do that this time around, now that I'm switching to open office... (since my new machine doesn't come with a Word Processor at all)
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Postby Puritan » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:45 pm

You should be able to open the files with Open Office automatically (it has a conversion utility built in) and then save them as Open Office files when you need to. You could also continue to use the MS word document format in Open Office as this is generally a standard for text documents. Just make sure to save your documents as Word Documents in Open Office, and they will be accessable in MS Word on other computers.
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Postby Da Rabid Duckie » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:56 pm

Puritan wrote:You should be able to open the files with Open Office automatically (it has a conversion utility built in) and then save them as Open Office files when you need to. You could also continue to use the MS word document format in Open Office as this is generally a standard for text documents. Just make sure to save your documents as Word Documents in Open Office, and they will be accessable in MS Word on other computers.

What he said. I'd also like to note that it's generally easy, virtually pain free, and I do it rather often when having to type or print documents for collegiate-type stuff. Also, .doc files saved with OpenOffice open flawlessly in Word.
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Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:17 pm

Works, darn it, works... NOT WORD... Sorry, but I think I asked this before, and got the same response... Works and word are two separate formats, one of the moments of idiocy for MS... Works saves with .wps, and open office will NOT open them...

I have looked for Works to Word converters, but the only ones I've found require you to be IN word for them to work...
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Postby Puritan » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:20 pm

Hmmm, can you open the files in Works and save them in Word document format? That might be your best choice. You could also save them in Rich Text Format if worse came to worse, that would at least allow most document settings to be transfered.
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Postby Da Rabid Duckie » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:38 pm

Yeah, that's an important detail that I kinda missed...

Maybe this would help?
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Postby shooraijin » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:04 pm

How old a version of Works? This must be fairly dated because my folks bought MS Works a couple years ago and that had a full-fledged copy of Word 2000 in it.
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Postby Kaligraphic » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:26 pm

I guess the question is, are the documents in .doc or .wks format?
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