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How to read old MSWord Apple files with grey square / green "exec" icon ?

MB Pro / OS 10.10.5
These files - that I know for sure I made in MSWord on older system OS7 (maybe 8) - are taunting me since years.
Is there anybody with the same issue ?
Thank you in advance for your help.

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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), null

Posted on Jan 25, 2016 3:38 PM

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Jan 26, 2016 7:38 PM in response to Stéphane775

I do offer data conversion services. Dataviz offered Maclinkplus software on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and earlier, which could convert these documents into a more usable format today. If you can do with a lack of formatting, you may be able to extract these documents with either TextEdit or http://www.barebones.com/ Textwrangler, or http://www.zamzar.com/


So depending on how many documents are bothering you I could see if I could bring it up to Office 2008 formatting.


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