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Microsoft Works Converter makes your Works documents useable
by Brad Linder Oct 24th 2007 at 4:00PM
It's happened to everyone at one time or another. You buy a shiny new computer, take it home, and realize that it doesn't have Microsoft Office installed. How are you going to write your term paper, letters, or other office documents?So you fish around in the box and find a copy of Microsoft Works. The computer maker must have thrown it in there as a freebie. And hey, it's got a word processor and spreadsheet. What more could you need?
Well, for basic office tasks, Works does fine. But if and when you decide you need a bit more oomph, you'll find that many other office suites just don't know what to do with documents created in Works. Fortunately, Microsoft has updated its free Works Converter to support Works 6-9.
Now the real problems arise when you find old Works 2.0 documents lying around on a floppy disk. Sure, you can open those documents in Excel or Word. But where are you going to find a floppy disk drive?
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jccalhoun said 5:40PM on 10-24-2007
"You buy a shiny new computer, take it home, and realize that it doesn't have Microsoft Office installed. How are you going to write your term paper, letters, or other office documents?
So you fish around in the box and find a copy of Microsoft Works. "
If only there were a free open source office suite that you could download. Some sort of Office that was Open or something. An OpenOffice if you will...
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piller said 6:14PM on 10-24-2007
does anyone even use Works anymore?
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2271912
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freex said 6:10PM on 10-24-2007
see here for a good and free office suite :
www.openoffice.org
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Cuprox said 6:33PM on 10-24-2007
"Fortunately, Microsoft has updated its free Works Converter to support Works 6-9."
Fortunately??? That is a bunch of crap - M$ Word should read Works documents, regardless. There should be no need for an extra download of a converter, etc.
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Cuprox said 6:31PM on 10-24-2007
"Fortunately, Microsoft has updated its free Works Converter to support Works 6-9."
Fortunately??? That is a bunch of crap - M$ Word
should read Works documents, regardless. There should be no need for
an extra download of a converter, etc.
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michael said 7:22PM on 10-24-2007
@jccalhoun & freex:
OpenOffice seriously sucks. Ok?
You can't get to the level of customization as MS Office, you don't get the bazillion clip art files, and templates, and other extras.
You also don't get protection if something bad happens to OO.
Plus OO doesn't have as many features, or the beautiful UI that Office 07' has.
So for you OO users, I feel bad for you guys.
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jccalhoun said 8:02AM on 10-25-2007
no one is talking about ms office. The article is talking about ms works. Call me crazy but I think openoffice.org is a better option than ms works...
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Sakesaru said 8:04AM on 10-25-2007
Even if M$ Works was free, I'd still say OpenOffice is better.
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Dustin said 10:16AM on 10-25-2007
The article isn't to point out what Office Suite is better than the others. So put down you damn swords and look past your fanboyism.
Its about what if I do somehow have this Works Document that it doesn't matter who created it or where, but how do I get in another document format that my Office Suite can read it.
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sohbet said 3:16PM on 11-20-2007
hi
The article isn't to point out what Office Suite is better than the others.
;)
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John said 6:29PM on 12-01-2007
Will that converter open works files/documents in word?
I once had works and word on my computer, but when my computer got serviced, works got removed and an older version of word got installed, as a replacement for word 2003. Can anyone possibly help me?
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