Have microsoft word 2003 documents, no longer use microsoft word?

Question

I have downloaded four or five programs that say they will read microsoft word documents and even two that were supposed to be able to change the file format. I still cannot read these documents. What will work?

I tried saving it as a different type, when I did that it turned into html or something like it with a bunch of squares and "y"'s. I tried changing file type in someones MSO2007 and it still has the microsoft tag. So far this is alot like windows media formated stuff that does not play in my car stereo untill I converted it to MP3. Can I get a word file converter?

Answer 1

Your problem may be the version of your existing program is older than the version of Word that was used.

Is there someone you could e-mail the documents to that has Word? If so, they can covert the document into a text file for you (or possibly one of your other word processing packages). They would have to do a File, Save As, and then select one of your packages or if they don't exist, they would select "*.rtf" (rich text format) and then e-mail them back to you. (It doesn't take long to do.)

That would work.

Answer 2

You are trying to open Word2003 documents with another program?

Try saving the Word document as a text file. Some formatting may be lost but you can redo that.

Open the document
cl File
cl Save as

at the top, make note of where you are saving

at the bottom, filename: give it a new name
below that, filetype: cl the down-arrow to txt

try to open the txt file

Answer 3

Have you tried OpenOffice? It can be downloaded free from http://www.openoffice.org/