microsoft works

Discussion in 'Majorgeeks Welcome Center' started by liz57, Oct 16, 2006.

  1. liz57

    liz57 Private E-2

    hi! i am really new here but i have a question i hope you can answer for me.

    receintly we had major problems with this beast!(computer) and we had the old hard drive removed and a bigger and better one put in..but the problem was our old drive had microsoft works in it and some of my floppys ( the ones i used works on don't work. is therea program i can download free or reasonalbly priced that i can download that would possably open these files?

    i'm not afraid to download but i don't want something that gives me programs i really have no use for.
    we still have xp home edition and a larger gig drive. we just have the basic windows no works just note pad and wordpad. i can no langer make my text files into html files.

    is there any thing that i can download that will open these floppys or am i sol?:eek:

    any help would be appreciated!

    thank you so much

    liz57
     
    liz57, Oct 16, 2006
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    So, you need to install works, but the floppies are shot or something else?
     
    Major Attitude, Oct 16, 2006
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  3. mgpower0

    mgpower0 Corporal

    mgpower0, Oct 17, 2006
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  4. insamaic

    insamaic Guest

    Floppies? Lol, a bit out-dated.

    Yeah, I'd go for Open Office, or maybe you could try Microsoft Office 2007 BETA. :)
     
    insamaic, Oct 17, 2006
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    The sad thing about MS Works is it uses a proprietry file format ( .wps ) that only MS Works or MS Office with a add-on converter installed ( dependent on version ) will open them. So as MA posted above you will if you have the CD for Works is to re-install that.


    However give this a try as a workaround if you do not have MS Works or MS Office, download this Word Viewer 2003

    Once installed and run, in the Dropdown Menu headed Files of Type > choose All Files

    Then Browse for your Works documents, highlight one and choose Open, your document will show on screen, BUT as this is only a Viewer application as does not save you will have to copy and paste ( hold CTRL A to highlight all text ) the text into another word processor, as suggested Open Office is Free and does nearly all the things MS Office does.
     
    DavidGP, Oct 17, 2006
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  6. Bladesofhalo

    Bladesofhalo MajorGeek

    Welcome to MajorGeeks :)
     
    Bladesofhalo, Oct 17, 2006
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  7. liz57

    liz57 Private E-2

    thank you guys for all your help. and thanks for the welcome!!
    the floppies are fine i just can't read the works files... the text files and html files read fine.
    when we had the hard drive replaced the guy didn't put works on it. if i had known i would have had trouble with the works files i would have had him put it in but as it is i wasn't thinking that far ahead. lol.

    yes floppies are out of date but our old computer didn't have a burner on it and so saving the files to a cd was impossable. but now we have a dvd and cd burner. and i still save some files on floppies...



    any way.. yes i will download open office and word veiwer thanks so much!!
    you guys are awesome!!
     
    liz57, Oct 17, 2006
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