I’ve not had a geeky post in ages, so here’s a nice little one which hopefully people will find handy.
A friend just sent me a copy of her CV in MS Works format, which is an awkward one for a lot of people to work with. She asked if I could convert it to Word DOC format for her. “No problem,” think I, then find out that I’d not installed the right filter when I put Office onto my machine. After an age messing about with the discs, I found that the required files are missing or the disc’s unreadable.
Hum.
After a quick search, two solutions presented themselves:
1) Microsoft provide a Works 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0 converter as a download. Simply close Word, download and install the converter and you can open the WPS files in Word. Easy.
2) Very handy for those who are using a third party machine and thus can’t install anything, is a website called Zamzar. The free system allows conversion of files up to 100Mb and the from/to list of file formats is around 60-70 long (without counting). You upload the file, select the conversion and wait for an email to come through (mine took 5 mins) with a link to the converted file, which they will hold for 24 hours.
They also offered a paid account with secure HTTP access, larger file allowance and longer storage.
