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Word Perfect (.wpd) documents on a Mac
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nevada (Not Las Vegas)
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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?
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27" iMac C2D
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Don't know about Office, but you might try NeoOffice which is free.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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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.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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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.
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