If your spreadsheet files are from Works 6.0 or later, you don’t need to save them as Excel files. Excel 2010 and Excel Starter 2010 can open files in the Works 6.0-9.0 (*.xlr) format. Excel 2010 and Excel Starter 2010 can open files in the Works 6.0-9.0 (*.xlr) format. Microsoft Works originated as MouseWorks, an integrated spreadsheet, word processor and database program, designed for the Macintosh by ex-Apple employee Don Williams and Rupert Lissner. Williams was planning to emulate the success of AppleWorks, a similar product for Apple II computers.
I don't want the new office. It doesn't works as well as Office 2000, XP, and 2003. I beg to differ - I have both Office 2003 and 2010 installed on my PC and previously used Office 2000 (and earlier versions) for many years. I have used both extensively.
Office 2010 is a much superior product. Office 2013 offers other improvements, though some changes are a step back from Office 2010. Even if you could obtain a legitimate copy of Works 6, it would not be compatible with any modern version of Windows.
Works 8 or 9 (if you can find either of those) will run on Win 7 & 8, though. See: Cheers, Paul Edstein [MS MVP - Word]. The reasons I feel Office 2000, XP, 2003, were better because: Word XP offered great tools to make a professional webpage. It was easy to add photos or hyperlinks. Office Word 2007 and up is not compatible with webpages you made using Word XP. Also, It is impossible to make a web page on Word 2007, 2010, 2013, it looks good when you're making it but when you save it, then open it in a web browser everything is messed up and out of place. It just worked on Word XP.
PowerPoint XP, 2003 had a huge pile of themes for your slides. Office 2000, XP, 2003 included Office assistants that were awesome, entertaining and much better than a boring search box. And you said 'Even if you could obtain a legitimate copy of Works 6, it would not be compatible with any modern version of Windows.
Works 8 or 9 (if you can find either of those) will run on Win 7 & 8, though. See: ' Why would I want to install Office 2000, XP, or 2003 on 7 or 8 if I can run it on one of my Windows XP computers?
Windows XP is still the best. If true, that's probably because Word XP (hardly one of MS's better efforts) isn't compliant with current standards. If you want to design web pages, Works is hardly the appropriate tool - use a proper web-design app. As for your final question, so you can get the benefits of technology that is both far more capable, compliant and secure than Works 6 & Win XP, which have both long-since passed their use-by dates (i.e. Neither is supported any more), could ever be. Cheers, Paul Edstein [MS MVP - Word].
Just to clarify, Works does not include Microsoft Word, nor does it require a product key. There were some versions of Works Suite which included Word, but that would not have been free, and the version included fizzled out around Word XP (Word 2002 - which was not one of Microsoft's high points in word processor history). You can use Works 6 without the Word component. They are completely separate products outside the packaging. Incidentally, I agree with Paul.