must use "Save As" after opening Word Perfect files

[Jackie]

We have one user who, when he opens a WP doc, the document does not open with
the document name (i.e. Sales.wpd), it opens as Document 1 (or 2, or 3,
etc.). He can't just hit "Save" to save the document, the dialogue box comes
up as "Save As".

What could be causing this? It's only an issue with one user. No one else
had this problem.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is the user opening the file from within Word or from an Explorer window
(such as My Computer)? If the latter, then it would appear that the default
action for .wpd files has been set to New rather than Open (although Word
has been selected as the application to open them). Have the user
right-click on a file and see whether New or Open is the default (bold)
choice. If New, then this must be changed through the Tools | Folder Options
| File Types dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Terry Farrell]

There isn't a problem. The document was in Word Perfect format, so Word has
converted it to a Word format so that you can edit it.

However, it needs to know what format you want to save it to: it cannot
guess whether you want Word 2007-2010, Word 97-2003, RTF or maybe back to
WordPerfect.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Good point.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org