Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I have found a load of old word processing documents from the early 1990's on a old machine at work. One of these looks like something we'd very much like to recover - a history of a project that went badly wrong way back..
It's in .mss format - I can get some of the text by opening using TEXTPAD but it 's vey very messy
I think it might be a WordPro (ex Lotus, exI BM) document but there isn't much advice on the web as to how to recover them
Any ideas?
If they are ASCII Text files you may be able to get somewhere by opening them in Microsoft Word as a text file and getting clever with 'Search and Replace' to replace the control strings with spaces or new lines for example. It depends how amenable the control strings are to being recognised in a search field.