Re: Odd question about putting word 5.5 on old notebook computer

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:15:55 -0800

Many thanks Shauna. It worked! You've solved my problem.
Just have to get used to WP 5.1 and I'm away.
Cheers Don

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Don
>
>If you can't find Word 5.5, you can still use use
WordPerfect 5.1. WP 5.1
>was as a good a word processor as was made in its time,
it's stable, it will
>do the job for you. (I still miss some functionality
that was available in
>WP 5.1 that still isn't available in Word 2003!). Best
of all, you already
>have it up and running.
>
>Assuming that both the Toshiba and your machine at work
both have a floppy
>disk drive, you can copy a WP document from the hard
drive to a floppy disk.
>You will then be able to copy the file from the floppy
to your hard drive at
>work, and open the WordPerfect file in Word 97. In Word
97, just do File >
>Open and open it in the ordinary way. Word 97 has
converters that will open
>the file in Word, and for straight-forward text, they're
fine. For complex
>formatting, however, they don't always work 100%
perfectly, as the following
>article describes:
>
>WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are
perfect)
>
>http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WordPerfectConverte
rs.htm
>
>
>
>However, no matter what you end up using, just make sure
you don't save to a
>floppy drive, or open from a floppy drive directly. Copy
to and from the
>hard drive, and work on the file only on the hard drive.
WP will be more
>forgiving, but Word 97 will, sooner or later, corrupt
the document.
>
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
>http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
>
>
>"Don" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:114b01c4e58c$0b7efbb0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello from Medicine Hat.
>>
>> The other day I found an old Toshiba T1200XE notebook
>> computer. The operating system is MS DOS 4.01,
>> apparently. It only has about 20 megs of space on the
>> hard drive and this particular machine currently has wp
>> 5.1 installed. I want to remove the WP and install a
>> word program and have been told I should use Word 5.5.
>> Using a Word program will permit me to transfer work
>> between it and my modern desktop computer which uses
>> Word '97. This plan is all theory because I have no
>> manual for the machine and don't know anything much
about
>> DOS, other than it should be capitalized. Really I
don't
>> know what I'm doing at all, but I'm a writer and I like
>> to stare at the Toshiba machine's blue screen. (I'm
only
>> going to use it for writing when I sit in my armchair.)
>> If anyone knows where I can get an inexpensive copy of
>> word 5.5 and/or find a bit of information on dos 4.01,
>> and/or can give me any advice concerning this silly
>> project, I would appreciate it very much. So far I've
>> been able to get the system to boot up and I've found
the
>> DOS help menu (by typing "help" on the screen) and I've
>> been able to open the wp 51 program. And that's it.
>>
>> Regards to all and thanks in advance. Don.
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

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