How to convert a Lotus notes word doc to an MS Word doc?

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A lot of work I have backed up of older presentations, lectures etc is in the form of Lotus Notes documents.

We changed over our PC's and software a while back at work to MS Word.

I am looking for a program that will convert from Lotus Notes over to Word doc format. I believe Lotus files are in the .lwp format.

Preferably free/shareware, but not essential.

Cheers in advance for any suggestions.
 
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It's a bit of a nightmare unfortunately. I have had a go at this for a customer of mine, the best way I found to do it was to export the doc from lotus as a word doc and then import into word and fix the problems with the doc in Word. If the docs are straight text then it isn't so bad, but if there are pictures embeded in the doc then things can go awry. I think it's because lotus still do not licence the format of their docs so other companies can't make proper import routines. :rolleyes:
 
Cheers, I will try that. Google reinforces what you said, this seems like a far from straightforward task to achieve!!!.

I'm wondering if I right click on the lwp file and select "Open with..." and choose MS Word, whether that would be of any use?.
 
Draeger said:
Cheers, I will try that. Google reinforces what you said, this seems like a far from straightforward task to achieve!!!.

I'm wondering if I right click on the lwp file and select "Open with..." and choose MS Word, whether that would be of any use?.
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nope, you just get a load of garbage unfortunately. Not tried in Office 2007 mind you...
 
From what I remember your only real choice is to reinstall WordPro and save as a Word document from within that. There used to be a program called KeyView included with Lotus SmartSuite which you could use to open the file and then copy and paste the text into Word, but you'd lose all your formatting and it wouldn't copy across images.


Microsoft have never provided a way to open Wordpro from within Word..used to have this problem all the time when I worked at IBM.

Andy
 
Can OpenOffice open this type of document? If it can, you can definately save as a word document. This is probably no help, but maybe worth a look.

Paul
 
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