HOW DO I CHANGE A WPS DOCUMENT BACK TO A WORD DOCUMENTFROM USING XP TO NOW USING VISTA

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HOW DO I CHANGE A WPS DOCUMENT BACK TO A WORD DOCUMENTFROM USING XP TO NOW USING VISTA

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I am a secretary of my local bowls club and have been using office 2000 for all my admin work on my Xp computer and have kept it all on a memory stick. recently I have had to have my computer updated to vista and I now find that it seems to have changed docs from word to wps docs and I cannot open these docs, I have try to open them with wordicon but it will not open any of my docs have tried changing to explorer still no go I am now stuck with notepad and I cannot read a thing .Can anyone help me to change these docs back to a word document as it was in the first place, I have even installed word seacher from the microsoft desk but it does not convert . HELP PLEASE

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I am a secretary of my local bowls club and have been using office 2000 for all my admin work on my Xp computer and have kept it all on a memory stick. recently I have had to have my computer updated to vista and I now find that it seems to have changed docs from word to wps docs and I cannot open these docs, I have try to open them with wordicon but it will not open any of my docs have tried changing to explorer still no go I am now stuck with notepad and I cannot read a thing .Can anyone help me to change these docs back to a word document as it was in the first place, I have even installed word seacher from the microsoft desk but it does not convert . HELP PLEASE

If you have Microsoft Works installed, use it to open wps files.
If you don't have MS Works, suggest you install Microsoft 6-9 File Converter. It is free.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BF41401E-70FA-465D-AE2E-CF44DBF05297&displaylang=en

The converter is to convert wps files to doc files.

t-4-2

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I have this problem with WPS files. I moved files from my old computer with window XP to Window 7. Now my note pad files won't open.

This converter is only for other windows, not window 7...

Do you know about other ways to open those files?Hope you can help.

Thanks

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