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re: How to retrieve data from Microsoft Works
Friday, November 18, 2005 at 8:15 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Glenda Camp
(35 messages posted)
Hi Don,
Thanks for your help. I only found one version of Works (4.0), which wouldn't work.
Although following your instructions didn't work completely, they led me to a place
where, through a lot of clicking around, I have retrieved the data. For anyone
else who might have this problem, here is what I did: 1) Opened Word 2) Clicked on
file>open. 3)Navigate to file. 4) Choose: Recover text from any file.
It obviously isn't in a very organized form, but at least it is readable. If you
have any ideas as to how I could get it back into the Works (Recipe) format, the
pie would be in the oven in a jiffy.
Thanks again. I feel fortunate to at least be able to see the 100 pages of data
I laboriously typed in over several years.
On Friday, November 18, 2005 at 1:40 am, Don wrote:
>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...
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