opening .wpd documents in word x

[Bruce Jensen]

How do i open a wordperfect document in ms word?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Bruce,

There are several options. The suggestions below are all from previous
posts on this newsgroup:

From John McGhie:

If you save out the WordPerfect files as RTF (Rich Text Format), Word will be
able to read them.

From Jim Gordon:

If you can still walk proudly after asking a windows person for help, ask
someone to open the file in Word XP then save it as a Word document.

From Mickey Stevens:

If you are looking for a free solution, there is one, but it involves the use
of the Classic environment. Download a copy of WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced,
which is now free:
<http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/pub/Macintosh/Applications/Corel/Corel_WP_35e.sea
.bin>

You can then install the application in Classic. Run the application, and
open the desired WordPerfect file. You can then choose to save it as RTF or
Word (with the appropriate file extension, .doc or .rtf), then open and edit
in Word X.

From Gene Van Troyer:

Corel WordPerfect is available free of charge at

http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/corel/wpmac.html

There is also an OS9x updater that you need to download, available via the
same site. It works through OS9.2.2 and will take up 22MB of disk space. Corel
has ended development of WP for the Mac, so OSX users will have to shift to
Classic mode to use it.

There is also NisusWriter 4.1.6, which may still be free. You can go to

http://www.nisus.com/products/nisuswriter

However, the caveat is that NisusWriter 4.1.6 seems to have been made free as
a pre-MacWorld Exbo promotion, as an encouragement to upgrade to NisusWriter
6.5 (carbonized version). I mention it only because NisusWriter will also open
WordPerfect files and save them to Word. The further Caveat: I have
MacLinkPlus Deluxe installed, and NisusWriter might be tapping into its file
conversion utilities as alternative Save As formatting options.

Also from Gene Troyer:

DataViz MacLinkPlus Deluxe sports translators for the following PC Word
Perfect file formats:

WP DOS 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 WP Win 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 WP Works 2.0, 2.1

It sounds like there may be translators for some legacy files in there. Of
course, MLPD will port the conversions directly to a supported Mac file
format.

The caveat: NO TWO-BYTE CHARACTER SETS! MLPD does not recognize them at all.
They are so alien that MLPD doesn't even recognize that it has encountered
them and will just go into a loop and you must force quit the program.

Hope this helps.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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