Converting new Word XP files to old Word 98 files

I'm on my mother's computer, which runs Windows 98. Yet, as I dream of
becoming an author, while away at reform school I typed several valueble
stories using Word XP. Now I come home and stick my little XP floppy in my
little 98 floppy drive and my story is in what my family calls Martian.
Please help me find the easiest way possible of converting the new to a
format understandable to the dinosaur.

A question better asked in a Word/Office newsgroup.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Jared Johnson" wrote in message
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I'm on my mother's computer, which runs Windows 98. Yet, as I dream of
becoming an author, while away at reform school I typed several valueble
stories using Word XP. Now I come home and stick my little XP floppy in my
little 98 floppy drive and my story is in what my family calls Martian.
Please help me find the easiest way possible of converting the new to a
format understandable to the dinosaur.

"Jared Johnson" wrote:

I'm on my mother's computer, which runs Windows 98. Yet, as I dream of
becoming an author, while away at reform school I typed several valueble
stories using Word XP. Now I come home and stick my little XP floppy in my
little 98 floppy drive and my story is in what my family calls Martian.
Please help me find the easiest way possible of converting the new to a
format understandable to the dinosaur.

An up-to-date (free) Word viewer might do the trick. They are
available at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Also, Open Office (www.openoffice.org), a free, open-source office
suite, includes a word processor that can open MS Word documents.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
...
A question better asked in a Word/Office newsgroup.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Jared Johnson" wrote in message
...
I'm on my mother's computer, which runs Windows 98. Yet, as I dream of
becoming an author, while away at reform school I typed several valueble
stories using Word XP. Now I come home and stick my little XP floppy in
my
little 98 floppy drive and my story is in what my family calls Martian.
Please help me find the easiest way possible of converting the new to a
format understandable to the dinosaur.


you will have to load the story into word XP and save as... a file format
compatible with the older versions

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:15:02 -0800, "Jared Johnson"

I'm on my mother's computer, which runs Windows 98. Yet, as I dream of
becoming an author, while away at reform school I typed several valueble
stories using Word XP. Now I come home and stick my little XP floppy in my
little 98 floppy drive and my story is in what my family calls Martian.
Please help me find the easiest way possible of converting the new to a
format understandable to the dinosaur.

With one exception, text documents will depend not on OS version (i.e.
Windows 98 vs. XP) but the version of the word processor you used,
i.e. typically the version of Word or whatever.

The exception is raw text files (.TXT) as edited by Notepad. In
Win9x, these are stored as ASCII, with one byte per character. In XP,
the default is to store these in Unicode, with two bytes per character
(gaining direct support for extended International characters).

XP can read ASCII .TXT fine, and (as long as you set this correctly in
the SaveAs) can save as ASCII too. But Win9x cannot read Unicode.

So; if these are .TXT files from Edit or Notepad, then load them in
XP's Notepad, and set the file type to ASCII (or ANSI) when you
SaveAs. The new saves should work in Win98.



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