documents scrambled

[Ann E]

Please can someone help
My laptop died I had windows 10, I am now using my late partner laptop he has windows 8, I have transfer my  backed up documents to it but some of the documents I did on my family research are scrambled when I click on them they are WPS File ?
Please make it easy

Ann

[hallmark]

Better off watching a video on it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMcfkAGC7Y   for example

[Ann E]

Thank you Hallmark but it didn't work there was a list of others it didn't work for !

Ann

[hallmark]

If you are going back from W10 to W8, you might need to run it in Compatability Mode...

I don't have MS Word to give directions on how to change Modes.

I think it is Tools>Options> Run in Compatabilty Mode for a Previous Version of Windows   but not sure

Sorry!

An MS Word user might know.

[Michael J]

.wps files were created in MS Works, which was dis-continued in 2006.

MS did give instructions on how to convert Works files to Word's .doc files here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12

Michael.

[Michael J]

Sorry, the link in my previous post may not be too helpful - especially as I meant this to be the link!

https://www.wikihow.com/Open-WPS-Files

[Ann E]

Thank you Hallmark & Michael J,
On my lap top I only used note pad that OK, Word that Ok & sometimes word pad & I notice when I used it was saved as Word .  I don't know where wps came from? maybe as you said it is going from windows 10 to 8
Ann

[mike175]

If you don't have any success with the other suggestions, you could try downloading LibreOffice, which is free. I just checked and it does open .wps files.

Mike.

[confusion]

The old M$ Works file extension used was *.wps. This has now been deprecated.
You can convert all your .wps files online to *.doc, *.docx, *.txt and *.odt etc.
 
https://www.zamzar.com/

Hope this helps