Suggest you make your own backup copy onto a disk - then put it somewhere 
safe, the editing tends to go wrong when you don't have a spare....

Quoting michael pulsford <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hi,
> Thanks for the tip!  I can open them okay with OpenOffice but there's still
> a lot of them (~40-50 files) and working out how they all fit together will
> take a few hours.  My dad's coming to town in a couple of weeks and he
> worked with Miles to try and get things into a web-presentable form so he
> can help me if I can't work it out by myself.
> 
> Part of the problem is that Miles just got a bit too old for the whole thing
> while they were still in the writing-up process.  His wife died and he moved
> into a nursing home.  Still, my dad says he has all the hard-copy versions
> of Miles's notes and graphs and so on, so we should be able to
> reconstruct something.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:35 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Try copying (NOT renaming) the .WPD files to .doc files and you might
> trick
> > microsoft word into opening them.
> >
> > Quoting michael pulsford <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > Hi Scott,
> > > Thanks for your interest!  I hadn't actually looked through the folder
> of
> > > data before yesterday, and then I discovered it's all in Word Perfect
> > format
> > > and Excel files with uninformative names like MS001.WPD.
> > >
> > > So I might have to take an afternoon next week and sort through it all
> > > before it's in a form I can send to anyone!  Miles wanted me to make a
> > > website for him to publicise what he found, but I never got around to
> it.
> > >  So sorting through it all will help me with that too.
> > >
> > > There is a 1-page html version he wrote, which I've put on the web here:
> > > http://michael.pulsford.googlepages.com/miles'sparkinsontreatment
> > >
> > > And I'll aim to sort through the rest by the end of the week.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Scott Burnett
> > > <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mike,
> > > >        I would be very interested in learning more of what Miles found
> > > out.
> > > >  I am 50 years old, diagnosed for 12 years, taking the following
> > > medicines:
> > > > carbidopa/levadopa 25/100 5X daily, Amantadine 100 Mg 2X/day, Requip 4
> > Mg
> > > > 4X/day, Comtan 200MG 4X/day.  That's a lot of pills, isn't it?  One
> > time I
> > > > figured it out and discovered I'd taken 65,000 pills (gulp!
> Literally!)
> > > > Anyway, for that reason and others, I'm interested in what your
> > > grandfather
> > > > found out.  Would you be wiling to e-mail me the information he
> > gathered
> > > off
> > > > list?  Here is my e-mail address:
> > > >
> > > > [log in to unmask]
> > > >
> > > > Looking forward to hearing from you.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Scott Burnett
> > > > 7715 Heather Dr.
> > > > Stockton, CA 95297
> > > > 209-478-9328
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> > > >
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