Doug/Bennardo,
Thanks for this.
Yeah - I've tried all the obvious things (NotePad, Word
using every conversion filter and WordPad). The recover
text option isn't coming up for me (?). Saving as a text
file makes the problem worse!
WordPad is giving the best results, but for some parts of
the document it still becomes pretty unintelligible.
I've also downloaded some old conversion files for the
programs that WordStar seems to have evolved into, but
without any luck.
Copy of sample file in the mail.
Thanks again for your suggestions.
Linc
-----Original Message-----
Hi Linc,
A WordStar document of that vintage would have hadcontrol codes inserted
inline with the text for underlining etc. and in thosedays, I don't think
that Wordprocessing programs knew what fonts were, theywere a printer
thing.
Have you tried opening it in notepad?
Alternatively, opening it with the Recover text from anyfile might be the
best option, but you would have to do some cleaning up.
If you want to email me a copy of the document, I'll playaround and see
what seems to be best and whether it would be possible toautomate the
cleaning up process.
Please respond to the newsgroups for the benefit ofothers who may be
interested.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Linc" <s8904417@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:015101c31088$84d564c0$2f01280a@phx.gbl...
Hi there.
Does anyone have any ideas about converting a very old
WordStar document? It's from the mid-80s(!). (Mother's
Day present, hopefully.)
None of the filters that come with Word 2000 do a very
good job.
Thanks.
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