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Free document converters: Office, Mac and old formats

Converters for office documents, and for documents made with programs you may no longer have. Files from desktop programs of the last thirty years are often kept for good reasons (letters, reports, budgets, newsletters, certificates and forms), but the program that made them is gone from the computer, no longer sold, or only on someone else's Mac.

The document converter turns Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into PDFs, brings old .doc, .xls and .ppt files into DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, and opens Apple Pages, Numbers and Keynote files, WordPerfect, Microsoft Works, Lotus 1-2-3, ClarisWorks and AppleWorks documents and Visio drawings. The Publisher converter opens Microsoft Publisher .pub files from Publisher 95 to Microsoft 365 and turns them into PDF files, page pictures or drawings you can edit in LibreOffice Draw, an open-source program for Windows, Mac and Linux. Upload one file or a ZIP of folders with hundreds: the result keeps the same folders.

Every conversion comes with a report: what each file is, its pages and page size, which fonts were replaced and by what, and anything else that may look different, so you know which files to check while the original program is still around.

The Scrivener converter opens Scrivener projects (.scriv) from Scrivener 1, 2 and 3 for Mac and Windows without Scrivener, for writers whose licence ran out, who moved to Linux or a Chromebook, or who received a project from a co-author. The manuscript comes out as a Word document, an EPUB e-book and Markdown, with its comments as Word comments and its footnotes as Word footnotes; every document of the binder comes out on its own in the same folders, with its notes and snapshots, and the binder itself as a spreadsheet with synopses, labels, status and word counts. Projects Scrivener refuses to open are read from the copy of the binder Scrivener keeps, or document by document.

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