What Mac app opens a pc .wps format?
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From: Wes Groleau on 21 Jun 2010 09:00 On 06-21-2010 02:51, Richard Maine wrote: > Donald Hall<spamback(a)127.0.0.1> wrote: > >> On Richard's suggestion, I tried out zamzar.com on a .wps file. Works >> well. I checked out their privacy policy first, and it seems fine - they >> sell or rent your email address. (You do deal with a few ads though at >> the free level of use.) > > I think you accidentally left out a "don't" in there, as in "they > *don't* sell or rent your email address." I think he also left out a “they say” :-) -- Wes Groleau Hostility to TPRS http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1596
From: Matthew Lybanon on 21 Jun 2010 10:55 In article <1jkfjyn.tbzdv1oebs1lN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > Phillip Jones <pjones1(a)kimbanet.com> wrote: > > > Dowop wrote: > > > I've received a .wps file. Text Edit says wrong format. Word (all > > > options) does't work properly. I've gone to Google and searched on > > > "convert .wps to Mac" . Some hits are shown, but I cannot find any Mac > > > application that will do this > > > > > Its a Wordperfect file and DataViz (not cheap ) will convert it. > > It is a Microsoft Works document. (WordPerfect is ".wpd".) > > Dataviz's MacLinkPlus Deluxe may be able to convert it, but Richard > Maine's suggestion of zamzar.com seems a cheaper option. (Never tried > either of them with .wps files.) <http://www.ehow.com/how_5073161_convert-wps-file-extension.html> <http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060613124120AAVTStX>
From: Richard Maine on 21 Jun 2010 15:54 Matthew Lybanon <lybanon(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > <http://www.ehow.com/how_5073161_convert-wps-file-extension.html> > > <http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060613124120AAVTStX> Note that the OP is on a Mac. That's not hard to guess from being on this newsgroup, and he also explicitly said so. At least to a casual glance, the above links both assume Windows systems andthus aren't likely to be particularly useful to him. (But then the OP also previously posted that his problem was solved anyway, so I suppose it doesn't much matter.) -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 23 Jun 2010 08:35 Phillip Jones wrote: > Dowop wrote: >> I've received a .wps file. Text Edit says wrong format. Word (all >> options) does't work properly. I've gone to Google and searched on >> "convert .wps to Mac" . Some hits are shown, but I cannot find any Mac >> application that will do this > > Its a Wordperfect file and DataViz (not cheap ) will convert it. Yes, but requires ver. 15 or newer on OS X 10.5.x/10.6.x... Maybe both Abiword (freeware) and Textwrangler (freeware) also can open the file. At least Abiword should do it, since this one originally was made so earlier WordPerfect users could use their older WP files. Abiword 2.4.5 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14743 Textwrangler 3.1 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18529 Using Abiword is easy - just drag the file icon onto the app icon. The same with the use of Textwrangler, but in TW there will be lots of unusable coding that will have to be removed to clean up the text. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 23 Jun 2010 08:56
David Empson wrote: > Phillip Jones <pjones1(a)kimbanet.com> wrote: > >> Dowop wrote: >>> I've received a .wps file. Text Edit says wrong format. Word (all >>> options) does't work properly. I've gone to Google and searched on >>> "convert .wps to Mac" . Some hits are shown, but I cannot find any Mac >>> application that will do this >> >> Its a Wordperfect file and DataViz (not cheap ) will convert it. > > It is a Microsoft Works document. (WordPerfect is ".wpd".) > > Dataviz's MacLinkPlus Deluxe may be able to convert it, but Richard > Maine's suggestion of zamzar.com seems a cheaper option. (Never tried > either of them with .wps files.) That isnot the full truth. I have lots of old WordPerfect files with the suffix .wps. But I also have some old Microsoft Works 2.x and 3.x files with the same suffix, and it is a real problem for those of us who have those old files. The '.wps' WordPerfect files are mostly made with WordPerfect Works 1.x and 2.x or WordPerfect 1.x, 2.x and 3.0 (Mac + Win ver.) and can be either a spreadsheet file or a mixed document file with tables and text. On my Windows XPPro I have both MSWorks 4,5 and the new 9.5, but none of these will open .wps files made with WPfct or WPfct Works. Corel changed the suffixes with the ver. 3.5.x which was the last version for Mac so files got the same suffixes as on the Windows versions of WordPerfect Office - and that to .wpd for docs, wps for spreadsheets (last ver. I've checked is ver. 9.x, haven't tried the Corel Office Suites). It is rather irritating that files from so different apps as WordPerfect and MSWorks can have the same suffixes. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |