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Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?



Hi!

Anthony Campbell <acampbell@achc.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder
> whether there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux?

Anthony Campbell <acampbell@achc.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you suggested WP8 but I was
> unable to get this to install, possibly because it doesn't work with kernel
> 2.2.x. Anyway, I don't think it's worth the amount of disk space it would
> take (I like vim/latex).

Robert King <king@mailbox.gu.edu.au> wrote:

> I've had good success with mswordview for word8. The web page for
> mswordview suggests a few other converters. The page
>
> http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html

There is a debian package of MSWordView.  I think the last is
mswordview_0.4.4-1.deb

C U L8R.

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