I have a book on an old Apple SE and need to convert it to a PC word document. Help?

Back again? Your first post stated that you had a WORD 5 document on your SE. Now you state it merely as 'a book'. You didn't follow up on your first post, and here we find the same one again. Let's retrace our steps. Hope it helps: Name: bjansson Date: March 03, 2002 at 10:47:40 Pacific Subject: Converts Apple SE Word files to PC? Comment: Hello. Does anyone know how to convert old apple SE Word 5.0 files into something that can be read by my PC? A friend of mine has a book on his old apple and he can't get it off to print it. I think I can buy some old apple floppys though. Then transfer it over to my PX (Windows XP, Office XP...) Thanks! ---------- Try This: Viable solution suggestions of increasing degrees of difficulty and ridiculousness: ••Hook up a modem (even a borrowed one, as you only need it once) to the SE and connect to an ISP, thus facilitating you to e-mail or FTP the document (or pasted text) to someone of fine moral character and responsibility. You could upload it to a BBS via modem if that option presents itself to you as opposed to an ISP/internet. ••Find someone with an apple powerbook that has a serial port. Connect a serial cable between PB and SE modem ports. Setup the network connection between the 2 via appleshare. Transfer your file(s) to the PB. You now have a mobile copy that can be brought somewhere else for transfer or e-mail. I say use a powerbook because that is the most portable computer to bring to YOU, but the SE is a small machine so you could actually bring the SE to someone's desktop mac! ••Borrow a SCSI CD burner, or Zip drive, or some type of removable storage and copy off the file(s). Then mount that removable on another computer (YES there are ways to mount a MAC disk on a PC) ••Beg, borrow, buy, or steal a printer and print the document out. THEN run the pages through a scanner with OCR software on another computer. ••Setup the SE next to another computer and manually type the thing, copying from the text you are viewing on the SE.

A little confused as to the question and the info suggested. What program was the book designed in? Are you asking how to Transfer the file to the PC? Or are you asking how to open the document into Word 2000 on the PC. All above transfer options will work. If the document will not fit on a floppy, try segmenting the file, have multiple files like pages 1-20, pages 21-40, pages 41-56 all as seperate files. export out of what ever program was used to create as close to Word 97 or 2000 as you can get .rtf or .txt will work but .txt doesn't save the formating. transfer to the PC, placing a extension on the file of .doc (by default the PC hides extensions) open that file into Word by using File/Open command to get the correct converters, if they are not installed you will have to have you OS CD handy. If it will not convert, print the document "to file" transfer the file to the PC, go to the Adobe website sign up for 5 free PDF conversions, get Acrobat Reader 5 while you are there, get the PDF copy text from the PDF into Word. Post back with programs used & options you have availble for transfer. 5 Free PDF's https://createpdf.adobe.com/ ------------------------ Do or Do Not. There is no Try.

Wow, you guys are GREAT! I can't eblieve the response I got to my question. (Sorry about the confusion - the first post came back saying it 'didn't post' so I had to retype it again). I will certainly try your suggestions. Just bought some apple floppies on ebay... The conversion from Mac Word 5.0 to PC word was what I needed. Thanks for all the help. You guys are awesome!!!! Brenda

i have been given some floppys with mac word files. i am not even sure if they are word files. how can i find out what files they are and how can i get them to open in Word (2000) on my pc? i have tried all the file types Word offers under the File/open/type of file - none even see it thankyou all