FIY, I offered to convert it for Bruce tonight with my G3 running OS9 and Word which is in my local network and I transfer files back and fourth on a regular basis between it and my MBP running OSX 10.8.
Just for the heck of it I tried to open it on my Windows 7 PC at work with Word 2010 and it opened fine (needed to disable some security settings in Word). I saved it as Word 97-2003 format and sent it back to him, he says it looks great. -Nick On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Bruce Ryan <bruce.r...@me.com> wrote: > Hi g-listers > > My PhD thesis dates from 1996 and was created in MS Word 4 or 5. I've just > had reason to look at this ancient history but can't do so satisfactorily. > It doesn't open in my current version of Word (mac:2011). It will open in > TextEdit: the text appears to be complete, as far as I can see, but the > illustrations and indices to the footnotes (the references*) are gone, and > there's a load of unreadable stuff following the text. > *Chemistry at the time didn't use author-date/inline references. > > I can rescue the illustrations: they were created in ChemDraw 3 on one of > my old macs, saved the files as EPS, copied them to my main mac and got the > bits I need in Illustrator CS5. But I want to be sure where each one goes > if I have to rebuild the thesis from the text rescued with TextEdit > > So, is there any way of opening the Word file. I have floppy-disk > installers for MS Word 4 but my USB floppy drive won't read them. The > hardware I have is > 2008 Mac Pro running 10·8·5, with Adobe Creative Suite 5 and 5·5, and > Office Mac 2011. > 2010 MacBook Air running 10·8·5 - software as above > Dell mini 10V running 10·6 > Powerbook G4 1GHz running 10·5, 10·4, 10·2 and 9·2. The 9·2 installation > has PageMaker 6·5, InDesign 2 and ChemDraw 3 > Powerbook G3 Pismo running 10·4·11 > > I guess the most likely route is to find an old mac with a built-in floppy > drive, then install Word 4 on it. Then I could open the file for the thesis > and use this to rebuild a version in a modern version of Word or InDesign. > But I'm not so keep to buy yet another old mac just for this purpose. Can > anyone suggest anything better, pretty please? > > thanks indeed > > Bruce > > -- > -- > 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.
