Converting wps files

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• Alan F Posts: 1,043

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  30/03/08 - 11:58 #2

  Word 2003 or later will open a Works (wps) file. You can then save it in .doc format.
  
  Not sure, but you can probably do the same conversion in Open Office.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,760

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  30/03/08 - 12:34 #3

  Alan F wrote: »

  Word 2003 or later will open a Works (wps) file. You can then save it in .doc format.
  
  Not sure, but you can probably do the same conversion in Open Office.

  
  I don't have Word and I'm trying to send someone an email which only accepts *doc formats.......

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• fenlander Posts: 2,199

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  30/03/08 - 12:37 #4

  Zamzar will convert wps to doc online and for free.
  http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php

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• Orbitalzone Posts: 12,627

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  30/03/08 - 12:38 #5

  MS make a converter for WPS to Word .doc files:
  
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BF41401E-70FA-465D-AE2E-CF44DBF05297&displaylang=en

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• chrisjr Posts: 33,282

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  30/03/08 - 12:40 #6

  Open Office looks like it will convert WPS to DOC. At least it gives you the option to open WPS files in Writer (it's equivalent of Word) and it will save files in Microsoft Word format quite happily (that I DO know works...)
  
  If you don't fancy downloading 120odd MB from www.openoffice.org there is a copy on the cover disk of this months PC World mag.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 10,327

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  30/03/08 - 12:40 #7

  laska wrote: »

  I don't have Word and I'm trying to send someone an email which only accepts *doc formats.......

  Open Office is free to use, and can be downloaded and installed. Some think it is better than MS Office, it certainly offers a lot more than MS Works. Open Office is compatible with all MS Office applications (except, maybe, FrontPage - I'm not sure about Access either).

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• chrisjr Posts: 33,282

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  30/03/08 - 12:42 #8

  Orbitalzone wrote: »

  MS make a converter for WPS to Word .doc files:
  
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BF41401E-70FA-465D-AE2E-CF44DBF05297&displaylang=en

  Trouble is that requires a copy of Office to work. it is merely a way of importing WPS files into Word. So if you don't have Wor, as the OP doesn't it's not a lot of use unfortunately.

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• Alan F Posts: 1,043

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  30/03/08 - 15:12 #9

  I assume that it is the recepient who will only accept .doc format as email does not care what format the attachment is in.
  
  Why not use .rtf format. Works can produce this and anything that can read .doc can certainly read .rtf?

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