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[maria]

Hi,

My new Emachines comp. came with Win Xp and MS Works 6.0
package. I just found out that I cannot e-mail text
files I made on Works word processor because they are not
Word, .doc files. People receive my files as gibberish.
DOES THIS MEAN I MUST SPEND MORE MONEY TO BUY WORD??
OR IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO (I TRIED MAKING THEM .DOC
FILES AND THAT DIDN'T WORK)
thanks for your response.

 

[purplehaz]

The person receiving the file must have works if you send them a works file
or you can save the file as a text document(.txt) file, which will most
likely loss any formatting and send that. Anyone can read .txt files.

 

[Jon]

Hi
Try this.....

Open the file in MSWorks
Click File - Save As then click on the down arrow by "Save as Type" and
select the Word 97 .doc extension one
Then Save and send via email

All the best

Jon

 

[dev]

maria said:

My new Emachines comp. came with Win Xp and MS Works 6.0
package. I just found out that I cannot e-mail text
files I made on Works word processor because they are not
Word, .doc files. People receive my files as gibberish.
DOES THIS MEAN I MUST SPEND MORE MONEY TO BUY WORD??
OR IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO (I TRIED MAKING THEM .DOC
FILES AND THAT DIDN'T WORK)

Open one of those file in Works and FILE|SAVE AS in a format that your
recipients can handle. .TXT works for almost everyone, though formatting
will be lost. Also try .rtf, and see how the recipients do with that.

Alternatively, bring up a file (or create it) in WORDPAD, and save it in a
format they can handle.

 

[BradKenn]

MS Word is able to open a range of different file types,
including some versions of Works. You may want to try
having them save the file you send them, then open Word,
then in Word goto> "OPEN", then you can select various
types of files for Word to open in the dropdown at the
bottom of the File Open Window. Then goto the location
where the saved file is and see if it recognizes the file
then.
Hope that helps!

 

[Glen]

Save them as ".rtf" (rich text) files. they can then be opened with wordpad
or word.