[G4] MS Word to Appleworks 5

[John Wilson]

Hi Anne. AW 5 will open Word files (PC version) up through Word 97 and 
2000. Anything more recent probably won't open unless they're saved in 
something less proprietary, such as RTF or plain text. When you're in 
the "open" dialog window, try choosing just word processor files as the 
file type, rather than "all available." Sometimes that seems to help. 
Also, even if it converts 'em, you may have to re-edit if they were 
heavily formatted, particularly if they had tables or graphics 
embedded. John

On Oct 31, 2003, at 5:58 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My hard drive may have crashed; at any rate my main machine,
> the G4/733 is in the shop. Unfortunately my copy MS Word won't
> open on the laptop (it says "Unexpected Critical Error:
> Can't Start Program.") It's said this before, and all I've had to
> do is copy the preferences over, but for some reason this isn't
> working any more.
>
> Since this is a "borrowed" version from a friend most likely it's just
> time to bow out and just use Appleworks to open Word
> files. I don't use Word for much so I don't mind losing it, as long as 
> I can
> open other people's files.
>
> But my Appleworks 5 won't open any of the Word files for some reason.
> I think it ought to. Isn't Appleworks supposed to open Word files?
>
> Anne Keller Smith
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