Re: Old Word documents

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

I've often seen Word for Mac and Word for Windows unable to open each
other's files, especially older versions from the other platform.

LibreOffice (free) can open some very old formats.

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>    Thanks. He's able to open documents, it's just that they render in
>    unreadable form.
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