Is there any way to correctly read / convert an MS Word 5 document?

[Kwad Guy]

I have an old Microsoft Word 5 document that includes a bunch of formatting. I cannot find any program to read this document in and covert it to anything usable. There are some programs out there that can read it and generate flat text that looks like crap and loses a lot of the formatting, but nothing better...

I've read that you could read the document in with Word 5 and output a .rtf file that could be used as subsequent input elsewhere. Unfortunately, I don't own any computers that can run Word 5 (nor do even own Word 5 anymore)...

Is there anything that can be done?

 

[lxskllr]

Have you tried Open Office? I don't know if it'll work, but it's free to try.

 

[tcsenter]

Can you upload or email? I'll see what I can do.

 

[tcsenter]

Microsoft released Word 5.5 for DOS to the public for free:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe

 

[corkyg]

Also try WordPad. Try it by renaming the suffix to .rtf vice .doc.

 

[bruceb]

Do you have MS Office installed ? ? If so, use this converter

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...EE-6BFB-431D-B39E-2D672C0C223F&displaylang=en

to convert your Wordperfect 5.x files into something Word can handle.

 

[sswingle]

Do you have MS Office installed ? ? If so, use this converter

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...EE-6BFB-431D-B39E-2D672C0C223F&displaylang=en

to convert your Wordperfect 5.x files into something Word can handle.

He means MS Word 5, not wordperfect.

 

[bruceb]

Please have a look at this link:

http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm

You need a converter filter .... WWCONV.EXE