I never imagined that my data would rot this quickly!
I have lots of Word 97 files. Even if I add extension ".doc", I can't get Pages or other word processors to open them. TextEdit will open them, but with a lot of nonsense characters. Worst of all, Spotlight's not indexing the files (and there's important data there).
Microsoft offers an ancient "Microsoft Word 97, 98, and 2000 Converter for the Macintosh" to...
Converting Word 97 Files
I have lots of Word 97 files. Even if I add extension ".doc", I can't get Pages or other word processors to open them. TextEdit will open them, but with a lot of nonsense characters. Worst of all, Spotlight's not indexing the files (and there's important data there).
Microsoft offers an ancient "Microsoft Word 97, 98, and 2000 Converter for the Macintosh" to...
Converting Word 97 Files