Hi Andreas IIRC, the file dates from 1996 - around the time of mac classic and Mac II.
Someone has offered to translate the file into a modern version of Word. If that fails, I will try to find Office 2001, which is more likely to be on a CD and thus avoid the floppy-drive blues. The PITA is that my floppy drive won't read by 800K Word 4 installer floppies. Absolutely agree about output to PDF - if only I'd known in 1996. thanks indeed Bruce On 21 Oct 2013, at 17:51, Mac User #330250 <macuser330...@gmx.net> wrote: > ---------- Original message ---------- > Subject: reusing my thesis > Date: Monday, 21. October 2013 > From: Bruce Ryan <bruce.r...@me.com> > To: "g3-5-list@googlegroups.com" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> > >> So, is there any way of opening the Word file. > > Word 4… sounds like this is a Mac OS 7/8/9 Application. > > The best way is propably to try opening it with Office:mac 2001 or so because > this should be able to read your files correctly. > > And if you then save it in the new format, you may be able to open it using > Office:mac 2011… > > What I would do is to install Word 4/5 inside Classic on, say, the G3 Prismo > or on 9.2 on the PowerBook G3. > > Printing/Saving files as PDF is always a good idea, as is saving it in a > standard format like RTF and RTFD. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format_Directory > > Cheers, > Andreas aka Mac User #330250 > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
