Macworld Tips and Tricks

[chriskleeman]

I subscribe to an email from Macworld Weekly, and occasionally some really good stuff comes through.

This week's discussion might be particularly helpful for those of us trying to figure out a work-around or two in Lion opening older documents whose formats are no longer supported. Good article and good ideas here.

Chris K

[Paddy]

I don't know why the Ted misses the obvious solution to BOTH the old file types he mentions (and a boatload of others, including WordPerfect): OfficeLibre. Granted, I'm not sure about the drawings he had trouble with translating from Appleworks, but everything else should work. And he'll likely get a much better result with the old Word docs than he will if he uses Word's "recover text from any file" which generally gives you pages and pages of formatting gibberish and completely unformatted text output.

[chriskleeman]

QUOTE(Paddy @ Apr 16 2012, 10:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't know why the Ted misses the obvious solution to BOTH the old file types he mentions (and a boatload of others, including WordPerfect): OfficeLibre. Granted, I'm not sure about the drawings he had trouble with translating from Appleworks, but everything else should work. And he'll likely get a much better result with the old Word docs than he will if he uses Word's "recover text from any file" which generally gives you pages and pages of formatting gibberish and completely unformatted text output.

Well, see, that's another reason why you are who you are!    

And thanks for that tip!

Chris