WordPerfect Shortcuts and Dictionary transferrable to Word

[LCRoper40]

I am a medical transcriptionist who has been typing into WordPerfect for many
years. Now it looks as if I'll be having to use Word to go with the flow,
which is OK, Word works well, but I have all of my shortcuts (QuckWord,
QuickCorrect and the dictionary) expanded in WordPerfect. Is there a way to
transfer these files to be usable in Word? The dictionary is especially
necessary as I have added probably thousands of medical terms into it and
don't want to have to go back to looking all of these up again.

Thank you for any help anyone can give. I just hope I can find this again
when I finish to see if anyone has answered.

 

[MC]

I am a medical transcriptionist who has been typing into WordPerfect for many
years. Now it looks as if I'll be having to use Word to go with the flow,
which is OK, Word works well, but I have all of my shortcuts (QuckWord,
QuickCorrect and the dictionary) expanded in WordPerfect. Is there a way to
transfer these files to be usable in Word? The dictionary is especially
necessary as I have added probably thousands of medical terms into it and
don't want to have to go back to looking all of these up again.

Thank you for any help anyone can give. I just hope I can find this again
when I finish to see if anyone has answered.

I foresee some manual labor.

Can you Save or Export the contents of your WP user dictionary to a
Word, RTF or Text file?

If so that may help. At least you'll have the words, but I don't think
there's any way you'll have the shortcuts without entering them again.

You can use Word's text expansion shortcuts, but if I were in your shoes
I'd look at TypeIt4Me -- the advantage being your shortcuts will work in
*any* and *every* application, so if you need to mention poliomyelitis
and bronchitis in an email, the shortcuts you assign will work in Mail,
Entourage or any other program in addition to Word.

 

[John McGhie]

If you can bring those files out of WordPerfect in a format that Word can
read, then you can write program to import them to Word.

Which version of Word are we talking about? Word 2008 has no VBA which
means you need to do this in AppleScript.

Cheers

I am a medical transcriptionist who has been typing into WordPerfect for many
years. Now it looks as if I'll be having to use Word to go with the flow,
which is OK, Word works well, but I have all of my shortcuts (QuckWord,
QuickCorrect and the dictionary) expanded in WordPerfect. Is there a way to
transfer these files to be usable in Word? The dictionary is especially
necessary as I have added probably thousands of medical terms into it and
don't want to have to go back to looking all of these up again.

Thank you for any help anyone can give. I just hope I can find this again
when I finish to see if anyone has answered.

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