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Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>Trying to read the 'readme' of some shareware, I get the error:
>
>        Word cannot start the converter msword632
>
>I assume that's a 32- bit (Win 95/98) utility to read Word 6 documents
>in Word 97?
>
>Where can I find it, or how can I fix it?
you need the service pack release1 at least..there are 2..umm i think
personally i hate the fscking piece of gobshite..OTOH M$ decided (in their
infinite wisdom) that when everyone bought word 97 they wouldn't be needing
'older' versions any more and so it can't read older word formats (a fscking
astonishing oversight if you ask me)..you can get it off an old(ish) cover
cd like the ones off pcplus if you don't want to d'l it..
hth Siii

In article <7bto7e$qti$4@news1.cableinet.co.uk>, Siii
<siii@freenet.co.uk> writes
>>        Word cannot start the converter msword632

>you need the service pack release1 at least..there are 2

Sadly not; I have already upgraded to SR-2a :-(
-- 
Andy Mabbett

I've given up superstitious mumbo jumbo for Lent...

In article <hDe$3BAp9Y42EwE5@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> writes
>Trying to read the 'readme' of some shareware, I get the error:
>
>        Word cannot start the converter msword632
>
>I assume that's a 32- bit (Win 95/98) utility to read Word 6 documents
>in Word 97?
>
>Where can I find it, or how can I fix it?
>
>I can't find it on my Word 97 disc, under that name.
>
>I'm starting to hate computers, again...


Would this help :-

There is a utility on a CD with "Computer Shopper" magazine for April.
It's called Microsoft Word Viewer 97 for Windows.
Win 95 & NT, also Win3.X versions are included.

Microsoft blurb says :-
Requires 7 MB of hard disk space (9 MB free for installation only) 

I found that my "Works for Windows 4.5" software could not "easily" read
a message sent in Word97 format; the words were there but they all ran
along together with no paragraphs, font changes, or other structures.

With the above viewer installed it all became clear.   
-- 
Tony 
Ooh, Gromit - it's Real Wensleydale!   [Wallace]

Tony Millington wrote:

> In article <hDe$3BAp9Y42EwE5@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett
> <andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Trying to read the 'readme' of some shareware, I get the error:
> >
> >        Word cannot start the converter msword632
> >
> >I assume that's a 32- bit (Win 95/98) utility to read Word 6 documents
> >in Word 97?
> >
> >Where can I find it, or how can I fix it?
> >
> >I can't find it on my Word 97 disc, under that name.
>
> Would this help :-
>
> There is a utility on a CD with "Computer Shopper" magazine for April.
> It's called Microsoft Word Viewer 97 for Windows.
> Win 95 & NT, also Win3.X versions are included.

I think that is the wrong way round! I used this converter (downloadable
from lots of places including Microsoft incidentally) before I got Office 97
- which does not have the required program either.

Have you tried www.microsoft.com ?

:-/

Chris D
--
Chris N. Deuchar, Nottingham University,
Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD
tel 0115 951 6264,fax 0115 951 6267
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~sbzcd/