Comments on: WPS Files Explained | Convert WPS To Doc For Free

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:15:44 +0000

Sorry but I’ll never trust sending over an important document into a website for conversion. They may keep a local copy and data-mine it or sell it and do whatever they please. Why isn’t there a safer local standalone program that can do this?

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:08:44 +0000

Zamzar was excellent! Thank you for recommending it! I thought I’d never get my WPS document converted.

By: DeeLaa77

DeeLaa77 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:44:33 +0000

WOW, I was sceptical of the Zamzar working and have had no luck trying to open this file for the last hour or so.

Used the Zamzar converter website and didnt expect to get the email with my converted file, and after just a few mintues, there it was.

Thank you for you help.

Dee

By: Fay Meriweather

Fay Meriweather — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:32:39 +0000

Wow, thanks a bunch m8

By: MOHagan

MOHagan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:45:36 +0000

Thanks as a MAC user the Zamzar was perfect – moments to use and get a doc conversion. Solved a regular problem. will bookmark this blog. Thanks again

By: internet virus protection

internet virus protection — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:21:00 +0000

I absolutely am in awe of this site, totally gonna have to remember to add this to my blogroll.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:42:36 +0000

@Gil Higham – I have used zamzar.com multiple times with multiple versions of Firefox. Perhaps you have javascript disabled – are you running an extension called “NoScript”, if so enable javascript temporarily when you visit the zamzar site.

To read works files using Open Office, you will need a version that supports this feature, as the standard version now does not. See this link;
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/DocumentManagement/How_can_I_open_Microsoft_Works_wordprocessor_files_%28.wps%29%3F

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:14:59 +0000

My comment about McAfee applies regardless of the browser being used – McAfee (who are a reasonably reputable organisation) put out the warning and my comment was really just intended to flesh out the earlier comments with a fact or two rather than a nebulous warning which may or may not have been based on fact. White Shadow was asking why the previous poster thought the site might be propagating viruses etc.

Back to Zamzar – I have since discovered that Microsoft have removed MSWordArt and MS Draw components from Works versions 8.5 and later – I think this is probably why people using these versions are having trouble opening their documents – it is also possible that Zamzar are using similar routines and therefore suffer from the same problem – the above routines were removed because they are 16 bit code and Microsoft did not want to update them. the Quickview application from Avantstar is able to diaplay documents using the above components, but it does not appear to have a capability to convert and save the files in another format – the only exception seems to be when printing them when you can use a printing application like CutePDF to ‘print’ a PDF version of the viewed document – its possible this may suffer from some formatting issues though.

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:04:10 +0000

You’re probably safe from that hypothetical malware as long as you’re not downloading executables from the website or using everyone’s favourite insecure web browser (IE).

As for the conversion problems, Zamzar webmaster(s) would probably be much better qualified at answering questions like that.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:07 +0000

Just for interest and for the person who mentioned virus and malware above, my McAfee complained about the Zamzar site and said it had been tested and might be associated with what some people would consider malware etc.