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Re: HELP: New computer

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Sunday, April 13, 2003, 22:41
En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> BlankOn Monday, I am due to get a new computer; it will still be a > Windows > machine, but with all the latest bells and whistles. One important > difference, it will have MS Word rather than Corel WordPerfect. The > problem > is that everything I've written (and saved on floppies) is in > WP...will > there be a problem when I load them into the new one?? >
IIRC the last versions of Word can read WP files without a problem (just checked, and my Word 2000 claims to read WP 5.x and WP 6.x files). But never having checked that myself, I cannot tell if it really works.
> Anything else I should look out for? Suggestions? The friend who talked > me > into this seems to know what he's doing, and will be present, holding > my > hand, at the baptism...... >
Well, you'll probably get Windows XP, so I don't think I can be of much help here. I'm staying with Windows ME personally :) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.

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