[donsml]

I have Office 97 including WORD and Excel. Friends with the lower power MS WORKS program send me attachments to e-mail in .WPS files. Are there viewers or conversion programs so I can read these files? Yes, I know that I can go back and ask the senders to send me a text version. Seems like Office 97 should be capable of reading these files. I could not find how on the MS Knowledge base.

[YSB]

You can open the file in Word. On the botton of the open-file screen is a combo box marked 'Files of type.' Select Microsoft Works from the list and it will open them in Word. If you want to save them permanantly in Word format, save them using 'Save as...' from the File menu and in the 'Files of type' box select Word format.

This also works the other way around meaning a file you created in Word can be saved in Works format by changing the type in the 'Files of Type' box when you save.

[donsml]

Thanks. Your advice did the trick.

I had originally tried to open the file from Outlook and associating it to WORD. When one does it that way or by double clicking the file, WORD comes up with a message "WORD cannot open the document". Silly me I believed that message. Seems MS could have recognized the file type and jumped to the WORKS opening routines.