GreyLord
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It was in whatever word processing and spreadsheet programs Microsoft was selling pre-Office. They simply didn’t create a conversion for the Apple side; Office can’t open them.
(Some was also in PageMaker.)
While I’m annoyed that I can’t access the reams of printable material I created for that campaign, it’s the spreadsheet that hurts the most. I can remember the characters and scenarios I created, but it took a lot of work making a HERO character sheet that automatically calculated & tracked ALL of the numbers (assuming you entered your data correctly, of course).
Hmm, Microsoft I think was using Multi-word but that is just Microsoft Word and became such in the early 80s. For Excel type stuff there was Multiplan. There were several other programs that you may have used though if it was later than that. They were not necessarily released by Microsoft, but they MAY have come on computers that were PC's and released by other companies (such as Tandy's, HP's, Emachines, etc.).
You had Wordstar and it's adjoining items that was very popular until Wordperfect and the Corel Wordperfect Suite/Office which also had Quattro Pro (VERY Popular). Prior to Windows becoming popular these were probably the forefront of programs.
Because of their popularity there ARE programs that will convert them on the internet to MS files or Libreoffice files. That said, the Wordperfect programs are hard to convert so when doing so, I'd make a copy and use the copy to try to convert rather than the originals.
PS: If it was Quattro Pro, I also feel your pain. That program was probably still superior to Excel and there are some things that STILL don't really convert over right, even with conversion programs.
PPS: I used to be hardcore Word Perfect, Quattro Pro, and Netscape back when Windows first came out. I was a hard to convert person to Microsoft programs and only did so because the popularity eventually forced me to for some work items. Today, I'm slowly trying to migrate off of them and am using Libre office more, but still need to use MS office occasionally for others.
My grandkids (new fangled tech kids) are not even using MS stuff, they use Google (office??) for all their stuff it seems these days.
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