Subject: Re: .wpd Apps ???
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 18:53:21 AKDT
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:52, Buddha wrote:
>
> Sorry, I think I screwed those directions up because WP can't save in .doc
> format (I don't think). You have to use MS Word as the 'middleman' so you
> would open each WP file in Word, save as a .DOC, then open the .DOCs in
> OpenOffice and alternately save in OpenOffice's native XML format.
>
> >
> > I came up with this workaround when Greg M. was switching over from
> > WordPerfect to OpenOffice.
> >
> > It could be time consuming, but why not try saving the WordPerfect
> > files in MS .doc format, then open these in Open Office. I can't
> > remember if this was Greg's issue or not or if WP evvn saves in .doc
> > format...going from memory here. Try it out on some docs and see if
> > the formatting makes it thru the process.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@wdm.com>
> > Date: Friday, August 2, 2002 1:36 pm
> > Subject: .wpd Apps ???
> >
> >>
> >> I am helping a charter school to use Linux and the board members want
> >> to know what is the app to use for Wordperfect docs, and they really
> >> want to replace MS Office completely and Wordperfect.
> >>
> >> OpenOffice 1.0.1 apparently does not read wordperfect ?
> >> Do you have use a Corel product ?
I opened all my WP docs in WordPerfect(10) NT4, and saved as a Word
(.doc). OO.org will import/convert all Word docs as a batch (per dir) so
that part is fast. My documents are heavily formatted tables, Abiword
doesn't do tables, & only minor editing was required in OO.org.
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