[clug-talk] Re Word 6.0 documents

[Greg King]

The public library has relatively current versions of MS Word on their 
systems. You might try taking a few documents on a USB stick and seeing 
if they can be read by Word. If so, you should be able to save as a 
newer version of word or as an RFT.

Greg

On 11-07-20 02:27 AM, Ralph Boland wrote:
> I have on my Linux (Ubuntu) system several Word 6.0 documents
> that were created in  1998ish on a Mac.
>
> I tried to open them using open office but was shocked :-) to find that
> open office could not read them.
>
> Can anyone suggest a hopefully inexpensive way for me to be able to
> read these files?
>
> It would also be useful to be able to convert them to a form that I can
> view from Linux?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rocky Boland
>
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