Making MS Works WORK on Newcastle College PCs

Many computers come with Microsoft Works software pre-loaded on them.

This is a perfectly adequate word processing (and spreadsheets) package that avoids you having to shell out lots of money to buy the Microsoft Office suite (though check out this special offer if you DO want the latest versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc).

The problem is that Microsoft Works is not compatible with Newcastle College computers. All is not lost though - we can convert the files at the PITS desk in the Main Library, ... or you can cure the problem for yourself....:


All you have to do is save them as "rtf" files, not the standard "wps". When you are ready to save your work, click "File" then "Save As..." and pick "Rich Text Format" from the "Save as type" drop-down menu.

Now they will open and you can edit them on College PCs without any problems.