Can Microsoft Works Documents Be Openend In Office

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I don't have microsoft office at home, just works. I've typed an essay for college and was going to send it to work to print it. We have office at work so will I be able to open the document. My printer doesn't work so can't print it here.

There is a good chance that it will since MS word includes converters for most things, but I can't be 100% sure. When you install Word it doesn't install every converter it has so it might need the original CD to install the converter from.

If not there is a converter here. Not sure if this is exactly the one you need, but they will have others.

You would probably need to open it by going to the file menu on MS word and browsing to it since double clicking probably won't work.

Oh I see it's the office one that is MS Office. You probably won't want to install extras there. But still a good chance it will cope.

I am 99% sure that MS Word (i.e. from teh Office suite) can open MS Works documents.

If your essay is just pure text with no tables and figures you could save it as a .txt file (which you can select from a drop down menu when you save) in addition as Word can definately open that. You may just have to spend 10 mins checking hte format as a .txt file won't save fonts and formats and stuff other than basic text in paragrpahs.

At the end of the day there is no harm in saving as 3 file formats (works, word and text) - at least one of them will work.

Thanks for all the help. Had a horrible thought that I'd have to re-write my essay then re-type it at work. I may only be 1000 words but I have a horrible habit of ad-libbing along the way and it's end up being about a totally different subject.