Most of the documents on my old computer were

You might consider switching to OpenOffice. It's a free open source MS Office alternative. It can open and save in Works 2000.

However, I would be confident in saying that a newer version of MS Works will open the 2000 files.

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Any newer version of MS Works should recognize documents created in older versions. Microsoft Office 2007 will as well.

incompatability issues are common with documents created in Microsoft works 2000 with other operating systems. If you purchase/d a new computer and it comes with works it will have the newest version installed. Microsoft includes a new doc converter with their newest office and works progs. You should have no problem there. If you prefer to install the old works prog just run it in compatability mode and then transfer your docs. Hope that helps you. There are free online file converters also.