Morning Glenda,
100 pages of recipes? Holy cow!!  The steaks just got higher.  Forget the apple pie, 
we are talking a nice big steak!!

Well...  looks like your Word program will only "see" works files up to version 4, 
and the program you used to create the recipe files is newer than ver 4.  My Word 
program only sees Works ver 3 and ver 4.  You might try going to the MS website and 
click around to see if there is an MS Works version 5 filter for MS Word.  (I am 
guessing that your Works was ver 5, and MS does offer (sometimes) downloadable filters 
for file conversions.  I will noodle around the MS site this weekend and see if there 
is a filter.  If I find something, I'll post back here.  Otherwise, I guess you'll 
have to open each file and format the text the way you want it.

If your old pc is up (the one you used to create the files), you could open each 
file in the original program, and do file-save as works 4.0.  Then, hopefully, MS 
Word would open it correctly.  Good luck, Don







On Friday, November 18, 2005 at 8:15 am, Glenda Camp wrote:

>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.

>

>

> 

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