microscorch works help

[chesters1]

have any of you lucky lads (or lasses ) m/works on your pc i have been sent a .wks document that my lowly lotus smartsuite 97 cannot open (opens about everything else :mad: ) its very boring Intrepid stuff if i sent it to you could you open it and convert it to a text or .doc or another format for me and mail it back :cool: thanks

on another vein does microsoft office open lotus 123 files ,now i`v upgraded to XP lotus 123 wont work (the rest of smartsuite does)

 

[ 14. October 2002, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Peter Sharpe]

Try making a copy of the file, and rename the copy so that it has a file type of .txt

I don't know if this will work, but it might.

[chesters1]

had a go but yuk its all there but disjointed and unreadable

[paul mc]

Hi Chesters

Ive got MS office which should open it if you want me to try

[chesters1]

you have mail paul ,thanks

[paul mc]

tried to open it with word etc but it just opened it in an unreadable format.looks like you need MS works only

sorry

I have got works but its not installed so if you cant find anyone with it ill install it and then try it.

 

[ 14. October 2002, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: paul mc ]

[chesters1]

ok thanks

[loonyl]

chesters1:

have any of you lucky lads (or lasses ) m/works on your pc i have been sent a .wks document that my lowly lotus smartsuite 97 cannot open (opens about everything else :mad: ) its very boring Intrepid stuff if i sent it to you could you open it and convert it to a text or .doc or another format for me and mail it back :cool: thanks

on another vein does microsoft office open lotus 123 files ,now i`v upgraded to XP lotus 123 wont work (the rest of smartsuite does)

Eh?

I've never heard of Microsoft Works :confused:

 

Send us the .wks & a lotus 123 file

and I'll have a look,

(maybe tomorrow?..., prob. Thurs tho')

maybe Linux has a reader/converter

 

Liam

ps Can you upload it to the net? or use the pic-putter-upper thing? (wherever it is nowadays)

 

[ 14. October 2002, 11:35 PM: Message edited by: loonyl ]

[Newt]

chesters1 - send it to me at home nvail@ctc.net and I'll open it and dump it to a text file with delimeters that any spreadsheet program can convert. Or save it to an older version that you can open. Or both.

 

My guess is the version that created the file is newer than your spreadsheet program and yours simply can't recognize something built to the newer specifications.

 

For running 123 on your XP PC - try creating a shortcut to it on the desktop and then open the shortcut and set it for 98 compatibility mode. It may well run then.

 

And yes, any version of Microsoft Office that is newer than your Lotus version can open files created with that version of Lotus.

 

[ 15. October 2002, 01:27 AM: Message edited by: Newt ]

[will this name be ok]

if all else fails send it over this way and i'll do it i've got works already installed.