My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the files
on our old Windows 97 machine.
I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same character,
kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
character.
Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
format?

You can open those files with Word Viewer 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en


"nelsh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4A03A6D4-EB4C-4A80-B0EF-(E-Mail Removed)...
My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the files
on our old Windows 97 machine.
I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same character,
kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
character.
Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
format?

"nelsh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4A03A6D4-EB4C-4A80-B0EF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the
> files
> on our old Windows 97 machine.
> I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
> Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
> OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same
> character,
> kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
> character.
> Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
> format?

Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have. Many
of these are not installed by default.

HTH
-pk

Patrick Keenan wrote:
> "nelsh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4A03A6D4-EB4C-4A80-B0EF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the
>> files
>> on our old Windows 97 machine.
>> I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
>> Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
>> OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same
>> character,
>> kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
>> character.
>> Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
>> format?
>
> Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
> WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have.
> Many
> of these are not installed by default.
>
> HTH
> -pk

OR they may be Microsoft Works files. (.wps is the file extension used by
Microsoft Works word processor documents, at least in the older versions).

"Bill in Co." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Patrick Keenan wrote:
>> "nelsh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:4A03A6D4-EB4C-4A80-B0EF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the
>>> files
>>> on our old Windows 97 machine.
>>> I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
>>> Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
>>> OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same
>>> character,
>>> kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
>>> character.
>>> Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in
>>> another
>>> format?
>>
>> Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
>> WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have. Many
>> of these are not installed by default.
>>
>> HTH
>> -pk
>
> OR they may be Microsoft Works files. (.wps is the file extension used
> by Microsoft Works word processor documents, at least in the older
> versions).

Yep, you're right. Same comments about conversion filters apply.

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:21:16 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "Patrick Keenan"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"nelsh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:4A03A6D4-EB4C-4A80-B0EF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> My wife has some sermons saved to floppies. I believe she created the
>> files
>> on our old Windows 97 machine.
>> I have managed to move the files to the hard drive of this XP machine.
>> Still, I have been unable to open them, even after downloading
>> OOo_3.0.1_Win32Intel_install... ; all I get are rows of the same
>> character,
>> kind of like y's with umlauts over each one, rows and rows of the same
>> character.
>> Is there a way for me to open these files and save the sermons in another
>> format?
>
>Sure, they are older WordPerfect files. You just need to install the
>WordPerfect filters/converters for whatever word processor you have. Many
>of these are not installed by default.
>
No, WordPerfect Documents are .wpd, not .wps.
Wps are MS Works files.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm