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How to open WordPerfect files?
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Join Date: Feb 1999
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Is there any free or nearly free way to easily open WordPerfect files on either 9 or X? I just need to print a document.
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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I think Corel has WordPerfect free for download for Mac OS 9 users. ( www.corel.com)
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2001
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What format is the document in?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 1999
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It's in WordPerfect format... hence the post. I can't open it to tell the version. Corel doesn't seem to have the Mac application anymore.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
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If it was made in a relatively recent version of wordperfect, I don't think you can open it on a Mac unfortunately. (If I'm wrong, somebody please let me know).
I'll bet MacLinkPlus or whatever it's called now could do it, but that's an investment...
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cpac
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Nah, you're screwed if it is a recent version of WP. I asked this question a while back for a friend of mine whose law office only uses WP. There is an old version (3.5?) for Classic that you can download, but after that, you're out of luck. There seems to be an OpenOffice plugin that is partly done and can import basic stuff, but is limited on some formatting. That might work if you can get OO running.
kman
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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I still have to deal with the occasional WordPerfect user, and I have no trouble at all opening newly-created WordPerfect for Windows files with my old copy of WP Mac 3.5 running in classic. (And the files I create/edit on the Mac open in Windows just fine.) Luckily, the basic WordPerfect file format has remained virtually unchanged for years.
I sure wish Apple would add a WordPerfect read capability into the next version of TextEdit, though ...
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
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yes actually, I take it back.
I downloaded and installed the latest version of WP (3.5e+some updates) and was able to open a document made with WP 9.0 on the PC.
Tables and footnotes came through fine (though some of 3.5e's interface seems very archaic
That said, you cannot save from 3.5e to a format more recent that WP 8.0 for PC.
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cpac
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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i don't know how heavily you want to get into dealing with conversions and such, but here's the link to maclink, which converts document files to different formats:
http://www.dataviz.com/products/maclinkplus/
i use wordperfect and love it; it's an old interface but the functionality is just so super.
hope this helps.
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