re: opening documents created with words97 with words2000
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(990 messages posted)
This is going to sound silly but there is a nice 93MB download that can solve that.
It's Open Office, an open source (=freeware) competitor for Microsoft Office:
Its editor, Writer, can open documents for any version of Word and convert them into
another version. It has its own format, .ODT, which Microsoft says it will add to
future versions of Word.
When WinNT 3.0 came out, it wouldn't run Novell networking software and Novell took
a tumble in sales it never got out of while Microsoft introduced its own networking
product. Bill Gates swore it was all an accident. Sun Microsystems is behind Open
Office, largely out of spite towards Microsoft.
Anyway, such a long download is unlikely to happen without an interruption so on
the link cited above there are links to a number of download managers so you can
resume the link. Here's an article comparing such managers:
If you do get it, here's a hint to make OO it run faster. Defrag your disk before
you run the installation program. OO has a lot of little files to access when it
starts and if they're scattered in different places on the disk it can take a minute
to start.
Another hint. OO asks you for a location for a folder of files. Pick any llocation.
That folder is a temp folder and should be deleted right after installation. OO
doesn't tell you that and you would probably hold onto that folder of useless temp
files for a long time until you figured that out.
OO is richly featured but as is traditional for open source software the documentation
is rottenly sparse. It's not hard to use but the learning process includes a lot
of cursing.
On Monday, June 25, 2007 at 10:12 pm, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote:
>I have a document created with words97. But I have only words2000. when opening
file
>I get series of squares.I have also Microsoft WordViewer which is supposed to solve
>the problem, but the result is the same. I will be grateful for any help. Reuven
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