.wps file question

[rb]

I've gotten some .wps files in My Documents (through transfer). I need a
way to open them.

I have WinXP with Notepad and Wordpad, and OpenOffice 2.2

How do I get 'em opened up to work with?

 

[Bob I]

Without Works or Word, you are kind of stuck asking the sender to save
them as "doc" files and send them to you.

 

[Malke]

I've gotten some .wps files in My Documents (through transfer). I need a
way to open them.

I have WinXP with Notepad and Wordpad, and OpenOffice 2.2

How do I get 'em opened up to work with?

You have a file created in Microsoft Works. Try and open them with
OpenOffice Writer. If that doesn't work, have the person who sent them
to you save them as .rtf (Rich Text Format) instead because Works files
are often incompatible with anything else. If that's impossible, post
your question in the Works newsgroup because that's where the Works
experts are:

microsoft.public.works.win


Malke

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I've gotten some .wps files in My Documents (through transfer). I need a
way to open them.

I have WinXP with Notepad and Wordpad, and OpenOffice 2.2

How do I get 'em opened up to work with?

A .wps file is one created by Microsoft Works. See
http://filext.com/file-extension/wps

To open a .wps file you need to have installed Microsoft Works or some
compatible program. Apparently you do not have such a program
installed.

What does "through transfer" mean? Where did you get these files?

 

[rb]

They were regular document files in WinXP My Docs on a previous computer.
We always backed up to USB hard drive.

When I put the USB on this current computer, and transferred the file to My
Docs, I found they were all in .wps files, and windows cannot open.

I'm not at all sure how they got that way.

 

[Malke]

They were regular document files in WinXP My Docs on a previous computer.
We always backed up to USB hard drive.

When I put the USB on this current computer, and transferred the file to My
Docs, I found they were all in .wps files, and windows cannot open.

I'm not at all sure how they got that way.

They got that way because you created the files in MS Works Word
Processor. This has nothing to do with the operating system (XP). You
need to install Works on the new computer to open them if OpenOffice
Writer won't do the job.


Malke

 

[mayayana]

For all practical purposes you should be able
to open the files in Notepad if there are not too
many of them. The actual text is usually separate
from the formatting data, or nearly so. I often
open DOC files that way, then dump the unnecessary
formatting data and resave as .txt files. (The
technique also works reasonably well for WordPro
and other word processor files.)

 

[mikeyhsd]

if all you want to do is READ them, there are free readers available on the web site.

go to microdots and search for wps reader.
or google for it.

if you wish to edit/change them . then you need to have a program similar in function to the one that created them, like works.

open office may do it as well, might check on it. its FREE.





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They were regular document files in WinXP My Docs on a previous computer.
We always backed up to USB hard drive.

When I put the USB on this current computer, and transferred the file to My
Docs, I found they were all in .wps files, and windows cannot open.

I'm not at all sure how they got that way.

 

[rb]

OK. Got it solved. Put in a free Microsoft reader.

What happened and why: my wife made these on her old pc. She had MSWorks
and Word. I always backed up My Docs to USB hard drive. Her pc died awhile
back, and I've gotten here a new one. I finally put the hard drive back,
and transferred them to her current My Docs----but----many in .wps. This pc
doesn't have .wps capability. Now, with the reader, they open fine.