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Open Works documents in Windows 7
I have an old XP computer which is steadily giving up. However, for some strange reason my husband still likes it so doesn't want me to migrate all the stuff on it to my new computer, as he intends using the XP to the bitter end.
In advance of it crashing I have saved valuable files to a Lacie external hard drive. However, when I tried to open files in Windows 7 it is obvious there is is a format issue. My old word processing was done with Works 7 which came standard with the XP. I browsed the internet and read to use the 'open file tab' and to browse for a 'wps' option. There is no sign of this option, or am I looking in the wrong place? My current computer has Office Starter installed and this seems to use Wordpad as the word processing package. How do I go about being able to open my old Works 7 documents? I do not want to buy more advanced programs if I can avoid it. I am a senior person and just use it for day to day stuff. However, some of the information in these files is important. So I need to sort this now before my XP crashes.
Also, am I likely to find other files I cant work with? My photos are all accessible it seems but would I be able to edit them?
Thanks for your help I have spent all afternoon trying to sort this and don't seem any nearer.
Tiffany