Graham
Mon Dec 22 10:43:12 CST 2003
Better and better, I have had another look and it will also open Word 97 -
2002 docs', albeit with some limitations, so Word 6 should not be a problem.
It's just a question of selecting the right converter from file > open.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> One slight correction: I don't believe that Word 6.0 docs are in RTF
> format (like all Word docs, they used a proprietary format) *unless*
> they were saved in "Word 6.0/95" format from pre-SR1 Word 97. The
> file format was changed between Word for Windows 95 and Word 97, and
> the original "Word
> 6.0/95" format used for backward compatibility was RTF under the
> skin. When users mutinied, Microsoft quickly back-pedaled and
> provided (in SR1) a converter that saved Word 97 docs in true Word
> 6.0/95 format. In any case, if Works 7 claims to be able to open Word
> 6.0 docs, I suspect it can.
>
>
> "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:#oYXNrFyDHA.2720@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> As luck would have it my new notebook has Works 7 pre-installed.
>> The word processor lists Word 6 as a file type in the file open
>> converters, but I have no Word 6 docs to check it with. It will not
>> open more recent Word documents. Works will also open RTF format
>> files and as I seem to recall that Word 6 docs are in RTF format, I
>> suspect there will be no problem.
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>> Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:
>>> Hi Edret,
>>>
>>>> I am using Windows 98 SE and WinWord 6.0. Going to switch to
>>>> Windows XP and Microsoft Works 7.0. Can I use 'Backup' to save
>>>> files on a floppy and 'Restore' them to the new Works 7.0?
>>>> Is there another way of saving the data files from WinWord and
>>>> transferring them to Works 7.0.
>>>>
>>> You should ask this in a WORKS newsgroup, or perhaps in the
>>> word.conversions newsgroup. You need to find out whether Works 7.0
>>> has a converter for Word 6.0 file format. If it does not, you'll
>>> need to first save the files in RTF format.
>>>
>>> And you should probably use the COPY command to put the files onto a
>>> floppy disk, not "backup" and "restore". But I recommend very highly
>>> that you use a program like WinZip to compress them, first. This
>>> will also have the effect of protecting them to a certain extent
>>> from "hiccups" that can occur during the data transfer.
>>>
>>> Cindy Meister
>>> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
>>>
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30
>>> 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word
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