Microsoft "Works" -- Yet another evil from Bill Gates

[Zkribbler]

Being both lazy and cheap, I've been using the "Works" word processing program that came pre-installed on my desktop and on my laptop. It's an okay program, but it cannot be read by either "Word" or "Word Perfect," the two most popular wordprocessing programs.

Recently, a friend installed "Word" on my laptop. A side effect was that I could no longer read any of the many "Works" documents which I had already created. "Works" had disappeared off my laptop.

One day, while poking around, I noticed that -- with the push of a button, I could reinstall "Works"... and so I did. But in doing so, "Word" was de-installed. I can still access the Word documents I created, but I can't modify them or even copy them into other documents.

Tonight, I install WordPerfect onto my desktop...and presto, I can no longer read the Works document on my desktop.

What is it with Works?! Why is it when you install another word processing program, Works de-installs, and you can no longer read what you've done?! It seem just plain mean and malicious.

[Sava]

save as a common format you dumas

and use office xp

[Datajack Franit]

Use ABIWORD

free installation

[Sandman]

You can save Works documents as Word documents, you know.

[JohnT]

Re: Microsoft "Works" -- Yet another evil from Bill Gates

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Being both lazy and cheap, I've been using the "Works" word processing program that came pre-installed on my desktop and on my laptop. It's an okay program, but it cannot be read by either "Word" or "Word Perfect," the two most popular wordprocessing programs.

Recently, a friend installed "Word" on my laptop. A side effect was that I could no longer read any of the many "Works" documents which I had already created. "Works" had disappeared off my laptop.

One day, while poking around, I noticed that -- with the push of a button, I could reinstall "Works"... and so I did. But in doing so, "Word" was de-installed. I can still access the Word documents I created, but I can't modify them or even copy them into other documents.

Tonight, I install WordPerfect onto my desktop...and presto, I can no longer read the Works document on my desktop.

What is it with Works?! Why is it when you install another word processing program, Works de-installs, and you can no longer read what you've done?! It seem just plain mean and malicious.

Your first mistake was in using "Works". Your second was in reinstalling the POS.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Sandman
You can save Works documents as Word documents, you know.

Yeah, I know.

Some of the docs I did in Works were stored as Word documents. Unfortunately, when I re-installed Works -- thinking it was in addition to Word rather than instead of Word -- all these documents were "locked" and I can not longer modify them.

Your first mistake was in using "Works". Your second was in reinstalling the POS.

True & true. Never trust Bill Gates, never.

[Tattila the Hun]

Try Ubuntu 5.04. Sounds like the perfect solution for your problem.

[Q Classic]

Try Ubuntu 5.04. Sounds like the perfect solution for your problem.

...the problem is with the POS Works, not necessarily the whole OS.

[The Mad Viking]

As far as I can tell, there is NO AUTOSAVE available on Works. Not just no autorecover, but no way to have it save your document every minute.

This is preposterous. Crash and lose back to your last manual save?

Bill Gates should be ****ed.

[Nostromo]

AFAIK, Works includes Word nowadays. So there is an autosave.

[Kuciwalker]

I thought Word was part of Works

[Nostromo]

They obviously have really old versions of Works, those versions that don't include Word.

[Urban Ranger]

Works is an "integrated program" that came from the 1980s. I thought it died along with Framework and such.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Works is an "integrated program" that came from the 1980s. I thought it died along with Framework and such.

http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=001

[GePap]

Just download Sun's openoffice. Its nice, and opens Word documents without a problem.