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jeff_wisnia

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Aug 26, 2009, 7:30:58 PM8/26/09
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I've got a few old WPD word processor files I created with Spinnaker
Software's "WinWorks" program back in the Windows 3.1 days.

Opening these files with Notepad shows the first line reading:

"WINWORKS DOCUMENT Copyright � 1991, 1992 Spinnaker Software"

Anyone know of a surefire reader or converter for those files?

I read that Microsoft's 2003 Word viewer would open them, and downloaded
it, but that didn't work.

Thanks guys,

Jeff


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Jeada Melivan

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Aug 26, 2009, 8:19:19 PM8/26/09
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I'm suprised Ole Faithful Notepad didn't work.
Try your luck with this.
http://www.file-convert.com/online.htm?o=CernCh

This site converts document, spreadsheet, graphics or data base files
between
different software formats, including converting from older word
processors and
spreadsheets to something modern such as MS Word, Excel, WordPerfect,
PDF, etc. with text and most formatting intact.

Rôgêr

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Aug 26, 2009, 8:42:42 PM8/26/09
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jeff_wisnia wrote:
> I've got a few old WPD word processor files I created with Spinnaker
> Software's "WinWorks" program back in the Windows 3.1 days.
>
> Opening these files with Notepad shows the first line reading:
>
> "WINWORKS DOCUMENT Copyright � 1991, 1992 Spinnaker Software"
>
> Anyone know of a surefire reader or converter for those files?
>
> I read that Microsoft's 2003 Word viewer would open them, and downloaded
> it, but that didn't work.

Don't know about surefire, but converter claims to be able to do it.
http://www.file-convert.com/onl_ff.htm

jeff_wisnia

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Aug 26, 2009, 9:55:57 PM8/26/09
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Thanks guys, I'll probably chance their $15 minimum charge and let them
convert a dozen of the WPD files to MSWord .doc files..

jeff_wisnia

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Aug 27, 2009, 6:02:20 PM8/27/09
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I'm not too impressed with that site thus far. They advertised
"conversions in minutes".

I tried converting a few WPD files to .doc files through them over eight
hours ago. They seemed to upload OK, but nothing has come back from them
yet.

An e-mail inquiry and a voicemail a few hours after I used their online
service haven't been replied to yet.

More later....

Jeada Melivan

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Aug 31, 2009, 10:32:48 AM8/31/09
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Let us know how it goes.
Good Luck with that

jeff_wisnia

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Aug 30, 2009, 6:48:04 PM8/30/09
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Jeada Melivan wrote:
> Let us know how it goes.
> Good Luck with that

It's now Monday 6:45PM and I've hearn not a peep from the website in
response to my two e-mails to them plus a voicemail message.

They did however charge $15 to my credit card. (No suprise there.)

At this point their service seems quite like the kind of service a
farmer brings his cows to a bull for <G>

Anybody got other suggestions on how to convert a half dozen Spinnaker
Software WinWorks .WPD files to Microsoft Word or Works without having
to spend a hunnert and fifty bux or so on a software package?

Thanks guys,

Jeff

Mara

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Aug 31, 2009, 7:03:22 PM8/31/09
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On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:48:04 -0400, jeff_wisnia <jwi...@dumpthisconversent.net>
wrote:

>Jeada Melivan wrote:
>> Let us know how it goes.
>> Good Luck with that
>
>It's now Monday 6:45PM and I've hearn not a peep from the website in
>response to my two e-mails to them plus a voicemail message.
>
>They did however charge $15 to my credit card. (No suprise there.)
>
>At this point their service seems quite like the kind of service a
>farmer brings his cows to a bull for <G>
>
>Anybody got other suggestions on how to convert a half dozen Spinnaker
>Software WinWorks .WPD files to Microsoft Word or Works without having
>to spend a hunnert and fifty bux or so on a software package?
>
>Thanks guys,

Have you been here?

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=25421

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Sep 1, 2009, 10:06:25 AM9/1/09
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jeff_wisnia <jwi...@dumpthisconversent.net> pinched out a steaming
pile
of<H_KdnWmYTatszwHX...@posted.choiceonecommunications>:

>Jeada Melivan wrote:
>> Let us know how it goes.
>> Good Luck with that
>
>It's now Monday 6:45PM and I've hearn not a peep from the website in
>response to my two e-mails to them plus a voicemail message.
>
>They did however charge $15 to my credit card. (No suprise there.)
>
>At this point their service seems quite like the kind of service a
>farmer brings his cows to a bull for <G>
>
>Anybody got other suggestions on how to convert a half dozen Spinnaker
>Software WinWorks .WPD files to Microsoft Word or Works without having
>to spend a hunnert and fifty bux or so on a software package?
>
>Thanks guys,
>
>JeffJeff
>

Interesting name, JeffJeff :) I have that OLD AS HELL Windows 3.1
program and I successfully opened files that were .wpd format with
either Abiword (FREE) or Open Office (also free).

So its just a matter of you downloading Abiword and seeing if it works.
If not then it was Open Office that did the trick...so you'd download
that. They are both better than M$ Office, fyi.

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Jeada Melivan

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Sep 3, 2009, 4:42:12 PM9/3/09
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Now I feel bad for giving you a link to a bad site.
Email the file to my address and i'll see if i can help

jeff_wisnia

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Sep 8, 2009, 9:14:26 PM9/8/09
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Jeada Melivan wrote:

> Now I feel bad for giving you a link to a bad site.
> Email the file to my address and i'll see if i can help


Thanks, but I had my assistant rekey the info into MSword, so the
problem's gone now.

I never got any kind of response from the vendor.

Though the game isn't really worth the candle, but I faxed a "disputed
charge" form to my credit card issuer to see if I can recover the $15
that "Advanced Computer Innovations" had charged to my card.

jeff_wisnia

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Sep 11, 2009, 2:14:38 PM9/11/09
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Pleasantly suprised to receive a letter yesterday from my credit card
issuer saying they'd credited my acount $15 and considered my disputed
charge claim closed.

Jeff (It's not the principle, it's the money.)

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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

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