Morning Glenda,
Make a folder on your hard drive (perhaps, call it recipes).  Copy the Works files 
from your diskettes to the folder.  Open MS Word. Do File, Open.  In the pop-up window, 
there should be a box that says "Files of type". Click the drop down arrow and arrow 
down until you see Works.  there will be several versions of Works.  Pick one.  Now 
navigate to the recipes folder you made and you should see all your Works files. 
 You may need to experiment by using different Works versions to see which one opens 
your files correctly.  When you find the right one, and the text looks good in Word, 
do a file-save as on the Word menu and make sure you save it as a .doc file.

After all that, you can make me an apple pie and e-mail it to me.  Good luck.  Don

ps. Keep your origonal files on diskette just in case...







On Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 7:52 pm, Glenda Camp wrote:

>I  reformatted my old Gateway running Win'95,which originally came loaded with Microsoft 

>Works.  Lots of my old favorite recipes were put on floppies using this program. 

> I assumed that I had MWorks on one of the CDs that came with my computer, but didn't. 

> I don't have Works on my newer computer, so I can't get to my recipes. Is there 

>anyway to convert these to Microsoft Word, which I have. Would it be futile to contact 

>Gateway for a (compatible) copy of Works? I've had this computer for a long time. 

>Help! 

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