Wordperfect translation

[HAL KUSHNER]

My lawyer sent me a very important document in WordPerfect. My Word
2004/Office 2004 for Mac couldn¹t translate it. I think Word for Windows
does have Œfilters.¹ is there a way to translate on Mac. I¹m running OS
10.3.8 on a G-5. Thanks.
Hal Kushner, MD

 

[Clive Huggan]

My lawyer sent me a very important document in WordPerfect. My Word
2004/Office 2004 for Mac couldn¹t translate it. I think Word for Windows does
have Œfilters.¹ is there a way to translate on Mac. I¹m running OS 10.3.8 on
a G-5. Thanks.
Hal Kushner, MD

Hello Hal,

MacLink Plus (www.dataviz.com) will give you the translation you need.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Daiya Mitchell]

Correct, MacWord doesn't have convertors (WinWord might not anymore either,
not sure). Anyhow, WordPerfect has the ability to save as either .doc or
..rtf, either of which you will be able to open fine. Ask your lawyer to
resend it in one of those formats.

Or File | Open with Enable set to Recover Text from any File will get you a
mess with (I think) all the text.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

If you try this method, do not forget to change the "Recover Text from any
File" setting back to "All Documents" or "Office Documents" or "Word
Documents". The "Recover Text" setting is sticky and it will cause you
problems.

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[manskybook]

My experience is that WordPerfect does not even translate well from
MacLinks translators. You can ask your lawyer to provide a text
document, or a Word translation, or an RTF. If they're not willing, you
may not wish to use them as lawyers as they choose formats (and perhaps
other decisions) that are not easy to translate or interpret,
regardless of platform.

 

[Gene van Troyer]

My lawyer sent me a very important document in WordPerfect. My Word
2004/Office 2004 for Mac couldn¹t translate it. I think Word for Windows does
have Œfilters.¹ is there a way to translate on Mac. I¹m running OS 10.3.8 on
a G-5. Thanks.
Hal Kushner, MD

You might try out AbiWord for the Mac. It's freeware:

http://www.abiword.com

I have heard that it has very good support for opening WordPerfect files. It
also does a very good job with Word files.

Gene van Troyer

 

[WJ Shack]

You might try out AbiWord for the Mac. It's freeware:

http://www.abiword.com

I have heard that it has very good support for opening WordPerfect files.

AbiWord can translate many Word Perfect documents, but it also crashes on
many WP documents. I have found NeoOffice/J to be much more reliable for
converting Word Perfect documents (although it doesn't do equations). Neo is
also freeware, and can be found at http://www.planamesa.com

 

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Hi Daiya:

A new "Clean" install of Word 2002 or later will NOT have the WordPerfect
filter.

Version that have been upgraded from Word 97 or Word 2000 will still have
it.

Microsoft decided to delete it, since it never worked properly. They spent
a lot of money trying to get it right, but a WordPerfect document internally
does not use the same principles as a Word document, making a translation of
the more advanced features nearly impossible.

Cheers

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