On 08/16/2010 08:23 AM, Gregory Sureck wrote: > > i have windows 7. I just down loaded open office. The problem is open > office won't open ms works any thing with **.wps. thanx for your > help. i'm not very computer savey greg
Standard Openoffice.org (OOo) does not support .wps files. If you have only a few .wps files, open in ms works & save as .doc & then open in OOo. However, if you work with large numbers of .wps files on a regular basis, then I'd recommend that you use the go-oo version of OOo which supports importing .wps files natively: http://www.go-oo.org/discover/ [MS-Works import Go-oo supports MS-Works files. ] Note that it does *not* support export as .wps, so you'd still need to export as .doc or .rtf. Download is here: http://www.go-oo.org/download/ Note that the go-oo version will replace your standard OOo version, so be sure to backup any of your work and uninstall the standard OOo version before installing. The interesting part about MS Works Version 9 (the one that comes with Win7) is that it cannot open older MS Works files created in Microsoft Works for Windows version 4.5 (the sample document on the go-oo page - http://www.go-oo.org/discover/msworks.wps) without a converter add-in, but go-oo OOo can open both the older versions *and* the newer Version 9 .wps files. To open older versions in MS Works V.9 you need to use a MS converter, see: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B940003&x=14&y=16 Go figure... -- Note: you have been cc'd on this reply as you have posted to an open OpenOffice.org (OOo) mailng list. For further information regarding OOo, please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html Please reply *only* to the list at [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
