Microsoft Works Word Processor 3-4 for Windows

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Identify it

Extensions	`.wps`
PRONOM	`fmt/233`
Wikidata	`Q63106742`

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Open it

LibreOfficeOpen sourcereads · MPL-2.0
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Microsoft Publisher 6.0writes
Microsoft Word 2000reads and writes
Microsoft Works 8.0reads and writes
Front Page Explorerreads
libwpsreads
Microsoft Worksreads · proprietary license

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Office Open XML Wordprocessing Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition	LibreOffice	Partial	`soffice --headless --convert-to docx in.wps` Layout may shift; macros and some features are not kept.
OpenDocument	LibreOffice	Partial	`soffice --headless --convert-to odt in.wps` Layout may shift; macros and some features are not kept.
PDF	LibreOffice	Partial	`soffice --headless --convert-to pdf in.wps` Fixed layout: the document is no longer editable.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-20.

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