You posted in numerous forums so it's unclear where to put the answers.
Bob
I have two problems related with WORKS 8. This program was on a newly bought laptop preinstalled. (The laptop has Windows XP Home.) I used it up til now and wrote many files. Now I want to install the latest WORD version and get rid of WORKS. Will it be able to read all my many WORK files? Will it still be formated in the same way?
The other problem: When I save my WORKS 8-files on a flash drive and then transfer those files to a computer running with Windows 2000 Pro and WORD 97, WORD puts them into an unreadable mess. Obviously WORD 97 cannot read WORKS 8. Is there a solution?

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