re: How to retrieve data from Microsoft Works
Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 2:38 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Don
(244 messages posted)
Morning Glenda,
Darn!! I thought the Works 6.0 filter would put that steak in front of me!!
So, to confirm, you have the works 6 filter installed, so that when you open MS Word,
you see the Works 4 AND the works 6 filter choices. I would have thought works 6
would have worked. As a general answer to your other question, I have found that
a later version of an application will always open any earlier version. Sooo, I
would have thought Word, using the Works 6 filter would have opened a Works 5, 4,
3, 2 or 1 file.
When you say Works 6 filter "won't work", what do you mean? Your file just won't
open? or, it opens, but your text formatting is lost? If the latter, gointo file
- page setup and set your page margins to, say 0.5 inches, in case Word/Works 6 is
"cramming" your converted file into a smaller page.
I never got into Works much, but I think that in addition to the document capability
(assumed here), it had a limited spreadsheet capability and a limited database capability.
With that stated, if you have MS Excel, you might try opening the file with Excel
(using the file types box to pick the Works filter, and likewise, if you have MS
Access, try opening with that also. If none of this flies, see if any of your friends
has an old win95 pc with Works. Alternatively, you might try something like Ebay
to buy MS Works and load it on your current pc.
If none of the above works, I guess you are down to using the "recover any text"
filter, and then copying the text pieces out of your old file and pasting into a
new Word .doc file.
Keep your old diskettes as a baseline. If I come across any other ideas, I'll post
back here. Keep the steaks and applie pie on ice 'till we get this solved. Good
luck, Don
On Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 7:32 pm, Glenda Camp wrote:
>Hi Don,
>Got to keep the steaks in the fridge for a few more days. Here's the deal. The
>computer that I used to create these Works files is old, very old. After I reformatted
>the hard drive on that old computer, I lost all programs, of course. I didn't have
>a CD (or floppy for that matter) with Microsoft Works on it to reload the program.
> I guess Gateway just failed to send it originally.
>
>My newer computer (1 year) doesn't have Works at all on it. From the drop-down
menu,
>I had already tried opening as Microsoft Works 4.0 with no luck (as reported in
earlier
>post). I tried what you suggested and downloaded the Converter and then had the
>additional choice of Microsoft Works 6.0. Guess what? Won't work. Now I've said
>all that to lead to these questions: Could I possibly have had an earlier version
>than 4.0 on that old computer? Could it have been Works 5.0 (my kind of luck)? What
>is the meaning of life?
>
>You've been very helpful and I appreciate it. Got any more ideas? If not, thanks
>so much for trying and I hope Microsoft always treats you well.
>Glenda
>
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