Microsoft works files

[Sandy M]

Good morning 

I recently downloaded open office to my new Windows 10 PC.  I saved my 
Microsoft works spreadsheets and word documents. Can I load them to my new PC 
and open office will automatically open them?  If not is there a tutorial on 
how to effectively use the spreadsheet in open office.

Thank you.

Sandy M.

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Re: Microsoft works files

[Steven Ahlers]

Sandy,

If you still have access to MS Works you can open the files in Works and then 
export them in MS Office (Word, Excel) format and then import them into Apache 
OpenOffice. Spreadsheets can also be exported in CSV format and then imported.

If you don’t have access to MS Works you can utilize online file converters.

https://www.zamzar.com/
Is a free service that works well.

Any conversions can result in formatting errors so careful proofing is 
advisable.

If you have any further questions please contact:

users@openoffice.apache.org
so that all users can provide assistance.

Steve 

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> On Oct 9, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Sandy M  wrote:
> 

Re: Microsoft works files

[Keith N. McKenna]

On 10/9/2019 2:07 PM, Steven Ahlers wrote:
> Sandy,
> 
> If you still have access to MS Works you can open the files in Works and then 
> export them in MS Office (Word, Excel) format and then import them into 
> Apache OpenOffice. Spreadsheets can also be exported in CSV format and then 
> imported.
> 
> If you don’t have access to MS Works you can utilize online file converters.
> 
> https://www.zamzar.com/
> Is a free service that works well.
> 
> Any conversions can result in formatting errors so careful proofing is 
> advisable.
> 
> If you have any further questions please contact:
> 
> users@openoffice.apache.org
> so that all users can provide assistance.
> 
> Steve 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Sandy M  wrote:
>>
> 
Sandy;

Along with Steve's excellent advice about converting them; at least for
the spreadsheet files it will depend on the version of Works that you
had. Later versions of Microsoft Works saved spreadsheets in a modified
Excel (.xls) format with the extension of I believe .xlr. If the
spreadsheets have that extension then AOO should open them with no
problem. If they are in the old format and for the Word Processing
documents I am afraid Steve's advice is the best that can be given.

As you have not subscribed to the mailing list I have cc'd you as a
courtesy. Please respond only to mailto:users@openoffice.apache.org.

Regards
Keith N. McKenna



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