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wordperfect documents to word
I have just installed MS Office 2003. My documents are
in WordPerfect in WPDOCS in Word Perfect Office. How can I open these documents into MS Word. Thanks |
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wordperfect documents to word
Office 2003 includes a text converter for WordPerfect 6.x for Windows.
Click on File | Open | Files of type: WordPerfect 6.x. If this file type is not a choice, then you have to install the converter from your Office 2003 CD by clicking on Start | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft Office 2003 | Change. If your WP docs utilize features introduced after WP6.x, and if you still have WP, you might get better results if you open the WP files in WP and save as RTF or Word files. Whether you do the conversion in WP or Word, you shouldn't expect the converted files to be 100% perfect... you'll probably have fiddle with the converted docs in Word to make them look exactly like the original WP docs. wrote: I have just installed MS Office 2003. My documents are in WordPerfect in WPDOCS in Word Perfect Office. How can I open these documents into MS Word. Thanks |
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wordperfect documents to word
See garfield-not-odie's answer for specifics. Here is some...
General Info on moving from Word Perfect to Word: Word and Word Perfect work very differently from one another. Each program's methods have strengths and weaknesses; but, if you try to use one of these programs as if it were the other, it is like pushing on a string! You can easily make a lot of extra work for yourself. If you are unwilling to take the time to learn to use Word's methods, you should stick to using Word Pad. You'll have a lot less grief, although you'll miss out on a lot of raw power. See http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm http://businesssoft.about.com/comput.../blconvert.htm for information on Word for Word Perfect users. For mo http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart1.htm http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm In Word 2000 (or later) You can get the function keys to display in a special toolbar at the bottom of the screen if you want (something like pressing F3 twice in WP). The following macro will do this. Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys() Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True End Sub Word's Extend key (F8) gives something similar to block processing. Learn about Styles - really learn! http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm I resisted for years and now regret every day of those years because although that string was still very hard to push, it kept getting longer and longer, and had some very important projects tied to it! Once you understand styles and the Word concept of organizing things into Chinese boxes everything falls into place and instead of pushing a string, you can push a button that turns on the very powerful text processing machine known as Microsoft Word and it will start doing your work for you instead of running around behind you trying to undo what you just thought you did. Finally, in WP a lot of people use macros to hold chunks of text - boilerplate. In Word this function is filled by Templates, AutoText and AutoCorrect, not macros. Follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebre...s.htm#AutoText for more information on these tools. It's a lot of reading, I know. It's OK to chunk it down and do a bit each day, but I would recommend that you make it a top priority to do that bit each day. You can use FILLIN and ASK fields or UserForms to query the user. For some form documents, Word's "online forms" work very well. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. As for converting documents from Word Perfect to use in Word... In a word, don't plan on it. I would not recommend using converted documents long-term. They will be filled with formatting anomolies that will get you at the worst time. This is especially true of any documents containing automatic numbering or bullets. Try recreating form documents in Word using the following process: In Word Perfect (if you still have it, in Word if not) save your files as text files. Use your converted files as references to show you how you want your formatting to look. Create a new document in Word and insert the text from the text file. Save this new document as a Word template. Format it the way you want using styles, not direct formatting. Save it again. To use a template within Word, use File = New and pick your template. This will create a new document for you. General practice in WP is to have a document and copy and edit it to create a new document. This is not good practice in Word. In Word, construct a good, tight, template for your documents and use that template when constructing new documents. Among other things, this can avoid embarrassing "metadata" http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/metadata.htm and things like surprise headers and footers from creeping into new documents. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. wrote in message ... I have just installed MS Office 2003. My documents are in WordPerfect in WPDOCS in Word Perfect Office. How can I open these documents into MS Word. Thanks |
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Help! I'm trying to access files created by my old WordPerfect 7 program. I
downloaded the converter program for WP 6.X from the Office 2003 disk, thinking that would allow me to view the files. No luck. The lack of choice for a WP 7 converter would make me think that I should be able to do this in Word without doing anything special. So then, I decided to just install WP 7 onto my newest computer, but I get a message saying I must be using Windows 95 to install. (I'm using Windows XP now.) I know my original WordPerfect files are on my hard drive. They come up in a search via Windows It's frustrating not being able to read them, however. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Office 2003 includes a text converter for WordPerfect 6.x for Windows. Click on File | Open | Files of type: WordPerfect 6.x. If this file type is not a choice, then you have to install the converter from your Office 2003 CD by clicking on Start | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft Office 2003 | Change. If your WP docs utilize features introduced after WP6.x, and if you still have WP, you might get better results if you open the WP files in WP and save as RTF or Word files. Whether you do the conversion in WP or Word, you shouldn't expect the converted files to be 100% perfect... you'll probably have fiddle with the converted docs in Word to make them look exactly like the original WP docs. wrote: I have just installed MS Office 2003. My documents are in WordPerfect in WPDOCS in Word Perfect Office. How can I open these documents into MS Word. Thanks |
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