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dhamon
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Feb 29, 2004, 07:32 PM
 
I have a rather silly friend who insists on using wordpad for everything. Could someone direct me to a text editor that reads wpd files?
     
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Feb 29, 2004, 07:43 PM
 
do you mean wordpad or wordperfect? i think wpd is the extension used by worperfect....
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Feb 29, 2004, 07:57 PM
 
Well, I believe it is hmmm....this is true. Well, it is a wpd. I assumed this was wordpad, but perhaps it's wordperfect. The question stands. What can open wordperfect documents?
     
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Feb 29, 2004, 08:01 PM
 
Originally posted by dhamon:
Well, I believe it is hmmm....this is true. Well, it is a wpd. I assumed this was wordpad, but perhaps it's wordperfect. The question stands. What can open wordperfect documents?
hm, WordPerfect?
     
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Feb 29, 2004, 08:07 PM
 
...and if you don't have wordperfect, perhaps see if you can get this person who insists on using it to at least save it for you in some format more compatible, like .rtf....the other choice is for you to cough up for a copy of MacLink Deluxe - which is a bit overkill if you only use it for the occasional document.

another idea - if you have X11 installed, you can try AbiWord - i think it reads wordperfect files, and it's free.
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Feb 29, 2004, 08:13 PM
 
Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
...and if you don't have wordperfect
...you can dowload it for free
     
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Feb 29, 2004, 08:17 PM
 
Originally posted by Appleman:
...you can dowload it for free
hey, that's right....i forgot about that! i wonder how well it supports documents created with newer versions of the windoze version?
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Feb 29, 2004, 08:18 PM
 
Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
hey, that's right....i forgot about that! i wonder how well it supports documents created with newer versions of the windoze version?
not actually
     
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Feb 29, 2004, 08:35 PM
 
Thank you. That opened the document just fine. Amazing, an application that still works in classic.
     
   
 
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