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So, we have a new laptop.
The old laptop has some documents i'd like to move over to the new laptop, however the old ones were created in Word 2010 & the new laptop has Word 2016.
When i attempt to open up the old documents on the new laptop it only displays odd square shapes.
Ta
Actually, the old ones are "WPS" files ????
I suspect they're Ms works format and you need this conversion prog:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12
Or use LibreOffice instead. It can open .wps files as standard.
Cos it thinks you are in the future?
I did drive it back from the shop @ 88mph
It's because Microsoft don't have a clue when it comes to backwards compatibility (see also MS Project).
I had some weird text box issues on MS Excel recently. It was because the font that the spreadsheet was created in wasn't on the computer I was opening the file with.
Sorted with wwaswas link, Many Thanks.