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Yup, believe it or not, Microsoft's Works word processor is not directly
compatible with Microsoft's Word word processor.
It's been a long time since I used Works, so I'm not sure, but you might
want to see if Works gives you an option to save a file as a Word document
(like Word for Windows 95) or a .rtf file.




"Charles" <Charles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A497B490-7F0B-4C02-B224-5E7455B11542@microsoft.com...
>I am new to Vista and the other day I used a Microsoft Works Word Processor
> template to help create a resume but I keep running into, what I believe,
> is
> the same problem. I sent the file as an attachment to my internet e-mail
> account so that I could print several copies at work (shhh...I know thats
> stealing) but I was unable to because when I downloaded the file at work
> all
> I get is weird text that means nothing to me and probably to anyone else.
> so
> I figured it was bad karma or mojo and gave up. then later on while
> surfing
> the internet for jobs I tried to upload my .wps file (my resume) to
> several
> different websites but all I get is error messages from the websites...one
> example is:
>
> -- The format of the file that you want to attach is not supported.
> The supported file formats are: Word (.doc)
>
> Text (.txt)
>
> Rich Text Format (.rtf)
>
> Portable Document Format (.pdf)
>
> Hypertext Markup Language (.html, .htm)
>
> now what am I supposed to do. I tried to download a file that would
> "convert" the .wps file to an acceptable version, but my ignorance of the
> whole process keeps getting in the way. basically it did not work. can
> you
> help me please. I'm sure I need to download some sort of file converter
> but
> I am clueless as to which one.
> thanks everyone,
> Charles