[nickw311]

I am trying to get my work to replace my 4 year old Dell with a Mac but our documents here are created using Word Perfect. To the best of my knowledge Corel does not make Word Perfect for Macs. Is there a way using MS Office to save as a .wpd or to open up .wpd documents?

Has anyone else here dealt with this issue?

[angelmb]

Don't know about Office, but you might try NeoOffice which is free.

[P]

Older Word versions used to support every version of Wordperfect ever, even Wordperfect Mac which must have sold about 3 copies decades ago. Recent versions of Office do not support anything except text, RTF and Word 97 and newer. The older formats (especially the infamous Word 6.0/95) were deemed a security hazard a while back, so MS cut support for it. On Windows those filters aren't installed by default any more, but you can still install them - not so in Mac Office, that I'm aware of.

Anyway: Easiest way is to use an app that does support Wordperfect, such as OpenOffice or its Mac-optimized sibling Neooffice to convert your files to a recent Word format.

[CharlesS]

I use AbiWord to convert WordPerfect to formats readable on OS X, such as .odt, .rtf, or .doc. It's a little more lightweight than OpenOffice/NeoOffice if all you want it for is WordPerfect conversion.