Okay, this is slightly obsessive-compulsive, but I will eventually figure out an easy way to get the gallery tab above to be highlighted instead of main when viewing the gallery page… but for now, it’s time for bed.
Archive for March, 2007
I just spent my weekend fixing my sister-in-law’s computer; it had a virus so I spent the time backing up non-executables so I could do the notorious format and reinstall. That is, her photos, iTunes music and movies, and any other documents I could find.
Of the text documents, she had a surprising number of open document text (odt) files, which I was happy to see, but then I noticed a bunch of files with a wps extension. I originally thought WordPerfect, but when I tried to open them in OpenOffice, they ended up blank, which I could tell was wrong from opening them in notepad.
After a quick search, I found they were Microsoft Works documents, which are not importable in OpenOffice (or even MS Word by default) or convertible using any standalone converter. Long story short, I had to install Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, then install the Microsoft Works 6.0 to Word converter, open them in the viewer, then copy and paste the text into OpenOffice so I could then save them in odt format (after some crappy text manipulation). Not very fun, but it was the fastest, free way to get her documents back to her without installing Works again.