Opening Microsoft works documents

[Guest]

Students keep sending me documents in Microsoft works. I cannot open them.
How do I open a Microsoft works document if I have teachers edition of
Microsoft Office?

 

[Arvin Meyer]

You cannot open them in Access. Works 2.0 spreadsheets can be opened in
Excel. Have the students export their data in text format as txt or csv
files. You will then be able to open them in Access or Excel.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Well, if all katco's got is the Teacher's Edition of Office (I assume that
should be "Students and Teachers Edition") then he/she doesn't have Access
anyhow.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Students keep sending me documents in Microsoft works. I cannot open
them. How do I open a Microsoft works document if I have teachers
edition of Microsoft Office?

What sort of documents are these? You asked your question in a
newsgroup devoted to Microsoft Access, the database program, so we've
all been assuming that these are database or spreadsheet files. But if
they're Works word-processing documents, you can probably open them with
Microsoft Word. It would depend on the version of Works your students
are using, and also whether the Students and Teachers Edition of Office
includes all the format converters -- I don't know whether it does or
not. But if you drop down the "Files of type:" list in the File->Open
dialog, you should be able to select from various Works formats, if they
are supported.

Unfortunately, if these are Works database files, and you are trying to
open them in Access, you won't be able to.