Bill, this site may have some help. It has a number of file converters. I haven't tried any of them, but there is one there for MS Works to MS Word: https://my.usask.ca/downloads/ It may be what you need. Lance -----Original Message----- From: William Longmore [mailto:w.longmore@ntlworld.com] Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:44 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] WDB Files Hi Fran, Thanks for trying. access won't open it either. Thanks again. Talk to you soon, Bill --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0434-0, 2004-08-16 Tested on: 17/08/2004 10:31:41 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com