[Publib] Re: works to word converter

[Andy Barnett]

At 12:00 PM 2/25/2009 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone downloaded the Microsoft Works 6-9 File convertor? I would like 
>your thoughts on how it performed.


Just added it to a couple Office 2007 PCs last week (one staff and one 
public). Works fine on both so far. Handled bringing in a document with a 
photo and two spreadsheets. The spreadsheet part should be seamless, as per 
Wikipedia.

>Microsoft provides a converter for Office programs to open and save Works 
>6.0-9.0 documents (*.wps).[4] Microsoft Office Excel can import newer 
>Works Spreadsheets because the newer Works Spreadsheet also uses the Excel 
>format but with a different extension (*.xlr). [5] As far as Works older 
>spreadsheet (*.wks) and database (*.wdb) files are concerned, Microsoft 
>does not provide an import filter for Access or Excel. There are third 
>party converters available for converting these filetypes to Excel 
>spreadsheets.[6]

I'll probably add it to our PCs as we slowly move to all Office 2007. The 
problem of backward compatibility has kept us from going whole hog 2007 so far.


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