Converting WordPerfect for windows (.wpd) docs to Word for Mac

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wilkv

I have some old files in Word Perfect for windows (.wpd) format that
I'd like to convert to Word 2004 for Mac. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.2
and use Office 2004 for Mac Standard Edition. Any insight or
suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you very much for your
help!
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

The simplest is to fire up Word for Windows, which still has a WPD
converter. It's not "perfect": the documents come back with a few strange
codes, but you will get the text and formatting OK.

Alternatively, open the documents in WordPerfect and save them out as RTF.
That will give you a better conversion that will open fine in Word 2004.

How many files? Send me an email off-line and let's discuss this.

Cheers

I have some old files in Word Perfect for windows (.wpd) format that
I'd like to convert to Word 2004 for Mac. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.2
and use Office 2004 for Mac Standard Edition. Any insight or
suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you very much for your
help!

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410
 
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Michel Bintener

If you have a fast internet connection, you might want to download NeoOffice
<http://www.neooffice.org/>, a free office suite from the open source
community. NeoOffice, apart from being a nice piece of software, can also
open WordPerfect files, though I'm not sure how accurate the translation is.
Also, Nisus Writer Express <http://www.nisus.com/Express/> is capable of
opening them, but again, I don't know how its translation compares to
WinWord's. There is a free trial period for NWE, by the way.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

And yet more options, just because:

MacLink Plus from DataViz is respected as an excellent converter for WP and
other programs that you can pay for.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/index.html

Another free option, besides NeoOffice, might be to download the last Mac
version of WP if you don't still have it, install it in Classic, and use it
to save your documents as RTF or as Word, which Word X or 2004 will then be
able to open.

There's a couple places to get that:

http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/corel/wpmac.html
OR
ftp://ftp.r8ix.com/WP-L_Stuff/
 
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wilkv

Wow. I've never done a group posting before, and each of your
responses was both timely and helpful ... I'll probably go with the
conversion tool if I can convert a bunch of documents at once (I have
thousands of wpd documents...).

Thank you all again for your help!!
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

If you have literally "Thousands of documents" then MacLink is your weapon.

You can set up batch conversion that will convert them all for you
overnight.

Better still, you can store a "Conversion setting" so that every time
anything attempts to open a WPD file, MacLink starts, converts it to RTF,
then the requesting application will open it as if it were its own file.

Cheers

Wow. I've never done a group posting before, and each of your
responses was both timely and helpful ... I'll probably go with the
conversion tool if I can convert a bunch of documents at once (I have
thousands of wpd documents...).

Thank you all again for your help!!

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410
 
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Peter Edman

Another free/open source program that has WordPerfect import
capabilities is AbiWord, which I just tried for the first time last
night.

http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/

The Mac version just got a recent bug-fix update. It's ugly still, but
it seems functional, and it opened the file for me without complaining
and with all codes intact.

Cheers
PLE
 

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