My minitower unit at work is running windows 98 and word perfect. When it dies, I’m going to open office and linux on a laptop. I’ve been saying that for three or four years now. It still shows no signs of croaking.
Anybody know if i can resurrect old microsoft works documents in open office?
Usually, yes.
When I switched from MS Windows XP running MSOffice to PCLinux with Open Office recently, I only had one file out of tens of dozens that had any issue at all. It had lots of columns, so perhaps that was the issue.
Back everything up before trying in the original format and have at it.