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Transfers to XP not as vexing as they may seem.

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| June 20, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: James Coates

Q. Much of our office work was saved on disks compatible with the Ami Pro word processor on our old Hewlett-Packard computer and now needs to be transferred into our new Windows XP/Office XP system.

Is it possible to program my new XP Dell computer to accept my old Ami Pro disks? Please don't tell me that they all have to be retyped.

_ Virginia Zavasnik, Tamarac, Fla.

A. Your quandary vexes many thousands, if not millions, of folks who have been herded away from such non-Microsoft word processing software as Corel's Word Perfect and IBM's Lotus Ami Pro, Ms. Z.

When Microsoft Word newcomers first go to the File command and pick Open _ hoping to access documents prepared in Corel and Lotus formats that dared compete with Microsoft _ they find that only a few foreign documents can be opened in Word and then converted into Microsoft's .doc format.

This is a shame ...

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