(Image: Wikipedia) Exports to documented or open formats To this day I'm still puzzled as to how anyone could work with it voluntarily. Incidentally, this also applies (and especially) to Apple, which also an "Apple Works" had on offer and are now producing their own file formats non-stop with Pages, Numbers and Keynote. If they are not properly documented or are available as open source, every tool, no matter how useful, will eventually become a dead end. In other words, file formats that are only used by certain programs. The whole problem – luckily in my case it went off without a hitch – made me realize once again how big a mess proprietary file formats are. Which, if Libre Office didn't exist, could no longer be used.
Which means that a lot of people have created a lot of files with the program that has been discontinued since 2007. Incidentally, MS Works was included in many new PCs that were delivered with Windows at the time. Rename to ODB, the database already runs under Libre Office. ODB, and that's about it: Libre Office can open the files in its own database tool as if they were native Libre Office files. So what to do? Simple, the whole trick to open Works WDB files without MS Works is to rename them from WDB to ODB. However, in our case they were never complete. While there is a Works to Excel converter, which turns the WDB files into Excel sheets. tips from the internet didn't help either. That meant: Dozens of files, meticulously maintained over many years, which, however, could not be opened with Libre Office either. However, my father wouldn't be my father if he hadn't made excessive use of the damn Microsoft Works database in particular. Works databases in WDB format: A trick is needed here Libre Office can easily open old Works files. And because Libre Office runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux, you can also open the Works files here. those created with MS Works word processing or spreadsheets. At least when it comes to WPS and WKS files, i.e. The solution then brought the Libre Office, much praised by colleague Lang: The free software ( Download here) is able to open Works documents directly without conversion. Even trying to simply start the files in Microsoft Office 2019 failed. Unfortunately, the tool refused to start on Vadder's new computer. Easily open Microsoft Works WPS and WKS filesĪfter trying a lot and browsing the internet for a converter for the old files, the first thing that came to my mind was this Works 6-9 File Converter from Microsoft in the hands.
0 kommentar(er)
