michael diemer said:
Thanks for the tip. I did also install Word 97, and the system also has Wordpad of course. Yesterday I opened an old document, and something came up called an XML converter. It rendered the document suitably. I can't remember, however, whether I opened it in Word, Wordpad or works. I'll need to do some more investigation on this.
Back in 1996 I only had Word 95 because I couldn't afford to buy Office 95. A few years later I bought Office 97. I was very unhappy when I found out that Word 97 couldn't even open Word 95 files or Works files. I feel Microsoft should have had a way to covert these older files to the new format Word 97 had.