WORKS/WORD compatibility

[bayskater]

Hi,

I have MS WORD 2000 on my old desktop computer.
We just bought a new notebook computer for my wife. It came with MS Works.
(7.0 I believe). Are these two pgms. compatible at all? I composed a short
test message in Works on the notebook and attached it to an e-mail sent to
self. I opened it in the desktop computer (which has WORD) and it was opened
in word, but the attached test message was gibberish.

Do I need to install WORD on the new computer?
If Works documents are sent as attachments to e-mails, does the person
receiving them have to have Works on their computer to read them ?

Thanks, ..... Fred

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The new notebook computer probably has Works 8.0 on it, because
that is the current version.

Word 2000 can open Works 4.x word processor files with the
included .wps converter. You can download a Works 6.x .wps
converter for Word 2000 from the Microsoft website.

From the Works 7.0 or 8.0 word processor, you can "save as" a
Word .doc file or Rich Text Format .rtf file, either of which
Word 2000 can open.

If you have a retail version of Word 2000, you can legally
install it on both your desktop and notebook. If you have an OEM
version of Word 2000 that came preinstalled on the desktop by the
computer manufacturer, then you cannot legally install it on your
notebook.

 

[bayskater]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
Not sure I understand your answer. Assuming the test message I mentioned:
">I composed a short

test message in Works on the notebook and attached it to an e-mail sent to
self. I opened it in the desktop computer (which has WORD) and it was opened
in word, but the attached test message was gibberish."

If the message I sent from my wife's notebook IS Works 8.0, how do I "save
as" a

Word .doc file in the old computer which has WORD 2000? When I try "save

as" on the received message in OE I am not given a choice to save it as a
Word .doc file.
Fred

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Start the Works word processor on the notebook computer. Compose
a message. Click on File->SaveAs, and select the Word (.doc) or
Rich Text Format (.rtf) file type, and give the file a name.
Close the file. Attach the file to an email sent to yourself and
open the attachment in Word on the desktop computer.

 

[bayskater]

Hi garfield-n-odie,

YES! That works fine.

Thanks for your help.

Fred