I am being required to convert a number of files from WS7 -- I do have the WS converter in Word for Office 2000. It does pretty well on a lot of things, but it also leaves quite a bit of fixing up, as I use a lot of formatting.
The worst part appears to be the tables. I have a lot of them and they all need to have new tabs put in and every item re-tabbed.
So I am just looking for any kind of help. A better converter if there is one. I see something in Word about customizing conversions, don't know if it might be useful. Anything at all. These are commercial real estate appraisals of around 50 pages. Thanks - any help is much appreciated.
Have you tried Star Exchange which comes with WS7? If you have and had problems because of large files, there is a fix (called WSFIX.EXE) for that. It can be found in the Downloads section of the WordStar Users Group Community web site at http://wordstar2.com/WordStar_Users. Look under WordStar, Releases 3-7.
I have found that I get much better conversions using the Star Exchange filters from WordStar to Word 5 than with using Word's filters by opening a WordStar file directly into Word. Just open the resulting Word 5 file in whatever Word release you are using. All of WordStar's features get converted better.
The only issue depends on how you have the left margin set in your WordStar document. If you're using the PO dot command to insert the margin, that doesn't get converted by Star Exchange. However, before you do anything to the converted document in Word, just go to Word's "page setup" page and set your margins the way they should be. If your WordStar documents are offset physically on the WordStar screen, the conversion filter usually gets it correct right away.
I've gotten perfect conversions of files with tables, footnotes, indexing, and so forth using this method.