When you attempt to open WordPerfect files in Word, recent versions of Word may display an error message saying "The file appears to be corrupted. Most of this page is about the ways in which Word itself converts WP files when importing them.
The page also includes information about other conversion programs that convert WP files into Word format. For a better understanding of the problems of converting WordPerfect to Word, see this excellent and unprejudiced article by a Microsoft support engineer. If you regularly open WP files in Word XP Word , Word , , , , or , please read the solution to problems with fonts when importing into Word and also see this site's macro for cleaning up typographical symbols in WP files imported into Word.
DOC or. DOCX format. Depending on the contents of your files, this may produce better results than opening the files directly in Word.
See the linked page for details. The free sites online-convert. I have only tested the Microsoft Word conversions, which work reasonably well, except with complex documents and documents that use paragraph numbering.
The original WP document must have a. WPD file extension. Before you open a WP file in any version of Word, read the sections below on problems that can occur when WP files are opened in Word 97 or Word , in Word XP Word , and in Word , , , , or See also the notes on third-party utility programs that convert WP files into Word format. In many systems, these filters are already installed; if they are not installed, they can easily be added to an existing installation by following the instructions in this section.
Microsoft specified some details about the changes that Word makes in the conversion process on a page in Microsoft's knowledge base. For further information on conversions from WordPerfect to Word, see the pages listed in this Google search.
Method provided by Dan Meek. If a message tells you that Word is converting the file the message appears either in a pop-up box or on the status line at the lower left of the Word window , and if the text then appears in the Word window, then your system has Word's WP conversion filters installed, and you may open WP files directly inside Word.
How to add conversion filters : If Word produces an error message complaining about an unrecognized file format, or some similar message, or if the file opens but displays as nonsense characters, then your system may not have the WP filters installed. Click Next, and from the list of Office or Word components chose "Office Shared Features" or some similar name; select "Converters and Filters," then "Text Converters", and make sure that all available WordPerfect converters are selected.
You may need to click on the icon next to the name of the converter and select "Run from my computer," or simply check a checkbox, depending on your version of Word. Continue the installation until the converters are installed. If you have an older version of Word that does not let you use this method, or if you are unable to follow the instructions in the preceding paragraph, find your original Word or Office installation disk or disks and run the setup program again.
If you are offered the option to Modify the existing installation, choose that option, and add the WP conversion filters, more or less as described in the preceding paragraph. If you have a very old version of Word, and must reinstall the program from the start, make sure to choose a Custom installation and manually select the conversion filters. In general, the Microsoft conversion filters produce good results when opening a WPDOS in Word - but only if you do not have the WP TypographicSymbols and other WP fonts installed on your system, or if you have those fonts but also use this site's method for fixing font problems with WP documents imported into Word.
You can temporarily remove these fonts when opening WP files in Word, and then reinstall them if necessary. DLL file that may be in the directory before you copy the downloaded file over it. How to place endnotes where you want them: If you find that Word does not place the endnotes in your imported WordPerfect document where they belong, please study this highly detailed solution to the problem , posted at WordPerfect Universe.
Warning: If your WP files include equations or cross-references to footnotes: When you try to print your document, your equations will be numbered, or you will see "Error! Bookmark not defined. To avoid this problem, immediately after importing your WP document into Word - and before trying to print - select the entire document Ctrl-A and unlink fields Ctrl-Shift-F9. Then click inside a footnote or choose Show Footnotes from the ribbon or menu , select all footnotes Ctrl-A and unlink fields Ctrl-Shift-F9.
Experts should be able to record these steps in a Word macro, but the macro may require editing before it works reliably. Note: If Word displays empty boxes, or the wrong symbols, in place of the symbol and typographic characters that you expect to see in your imported files, see another section of this page. The simplest method of adding conversion filters for WordPerfect and old versions of Word is to install a set of filters especially gathered for this site.
They include an updated export filter that may make it possible to export Word documents from Word to WordPerfect 5. In Word's Save As These filters may not work with your version of Word or your version of Windows, but it can't hurt to try.
If you want to install these filters, you must be willing and able to follow the written instructions below. Do not even attempt to use these filters if you are unwilling or unable to follow instructions!
If you refuse to follow the instructions, I will not help you solve any problems that you yourself have caused! Before you install these files, read the paragraph below headed "A note on files that Microsoft refers to as 'security risks.
The installation instructions, which you must follow, are these. Read the instructions before you begin. If you do not know how to perform any step, find someone who can perform all the steps for you. Do not attempt to follow these instructions unless you understand them - unless you really and truly understand them. The archive contains two versions of the WP filters with "newer" in their names. Experts may want to experiment by renaming these files to WPFT CNV after making backup copies of the original versions!
But you probably should not bother with this. Note: If you don't want to install the special set of filters, and you use Office , note that it includes a WordPerfect 6. Look for a file named WPFT A note on files that Microsoft refers to as "security risks": Microsoft no longer distributes the files in this set of filters because it has designated them as possible "security risks. However, Microsoft now requires that any software that it distributes must be written in a way that lets Microsoft certify it as not presenting a security risk.
In order to certify older software in this way, Microsoft spent enormous amounts of time and money rewriting existing programs. But Microsoft decided that it was not worth the money to rewrite certain little-used software for example, the WPDOS 5. So Microsoft simply declared the little-used older software to be potential security risks, and stopped distributing it.
It is of course possible that there is some actual danger in using these old conversion filters, but I have never heard of any such danger. The risk is entirely yours if decide to use these filters.
If you use them, your computer may explode; your hair may turn green; your refrigerator may transform itself into a clothes-washing machine; any terrible thing may happen. So you must use these filters at your own risk. But I use them all the time without any problem at all.
The following information seems to be publicly undocumented, but it derives from a reliable source inside Microsoft and is accurate.
The instructions apply only to bit Windows; this method does not work under bit Windows. Much of this page details the problems caused by importing WordPerfect for DOS files into Microsoft Word on systems that have the WordPerfect for Windows fonts installed; Word typically uses the WPWin fonts to display typographic characters such as quotation marks, which then do not match the surrounding text and cannot be searched.
To reverse this change, download UseWPFonts. Double-click on the file to remove the setting in the Windows registry that was added by the first file. These files have been tested under bit Windows XP, 7, and 10 and Office through ; under bit Windows they seem to have no effect, though they do no harm..
I spend an inordinate amount of my time playing with computers and attempting to explain technology to lawyers and law office staff. It's not always easy, but someone's got to do it. Pretty cool post. I just came across your blog and wanted to say that I have really liked browsing your blog posts. Thanks for stopping by! I have always trained my students, and counsel legal assistants and attorneys to use the Copy Paste method with one caveat — and a very important one at that! One of the biggest complaints I have from users is that when they use the Copy Paste method they still have to perform clean up on their documents.
Familiarize yourself with the Paste Special command in MS Word and it will save you a lot of time and keystrokes. I make pretty liberal use of Paste Special Unformatted Text myself, and tend to prefer it when dropping fairly small amounts of text from another source into an existing Word document.
When copying large blocks of text from WordPerfect entire pleadings, etc. Minor irritations like those extra section breaks that come over from WordPerfect are usually easy enough to find and fix. For me, it all comes down to which method is going to save me more time.
One comment on the copy and paste from WordPerfect to Word. If you do this — it will break the links on any footnotes coming from WP to Word. Opening a WP doc in Word is by far the best way to convert. This document will now be saved as a new Word document, ending with the ". You can press the save button again once you do the procedures needed for a save. If nothing happens when you press save, you are finished! Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
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