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From: "James Lockie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [users] opening .wb1 (or .m2) files
James Lockie wrote:
I have some old (wb1) files that I want to open.
They are Quatro Pro for Windows.
I also have the same content in even older (m2) Mesa (OS/2 Spreadsheet)
files.
Oops, not quite as old but still old.
OS/2, not Amiga.
Can you open them with MS Word (or other component of MS Office)?
If so, open them and use "Save As" from the File menu to save them as native
MS office documents. Then OpenOffice will be able to open them.
You *might* lose some formatting during this double conversion. Perhaps not
all fonts will be supported, for example. You might find the font(s) for OO
using Google.
If you are registered as an OO user then you can try here:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=28760&highlight=free+fonts
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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