I second Charles' remarks. I used to be a devoted WP user (in pre-windows
times) and I have still got extensive WP documents archived. Initially I
resisted Word because of the perceived arrogance of Microsoft. But when I took
the plunge, I realised how much better Word actually is. There appear to be the
odd bugs but what you can do with it is simply marvellous (eg comments and track
revision), as well as Word being probably the acceptable standard. It's well
worth the transition. Occasionally I look at my WP documents via Word, and note
that it is quite erratic with font conversions. So what I do now is use my old
WP (from a DOS window) for all casual inspections. If I want to go further, I
convert to Word and manually clean up the result. I am using W98, Word 2000.


Charles Kenyon wrote:

Tom's answer is thorough. If someone wants to use a Word Perfect document as
the basis for new Word documents, I advise saving a copy of the WP document
as plain text and pasting that text into a Word template that is set up
properly. Then format the text using styles in Word to make it look like the
original. Save as a new template and use that for Word documents.

If you look at a converted document, it is _very_ complex at the file level
even though it may look the same. It can make for a great deal of difficulty
editing.

If this is going to be much of your work in the future, I would advise
getting and learning Word. It will not be a painless process, but will be
worthwhile. You'll end up with more satisfied clients and less hair-pulling
on your part. I have a whole page of advice / links that I send people
making this transition; let me know if you want it.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"annedill" wrote in message
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Is the .rtf extension the best way to go back and forth between Word and
WordPerfect with a minimum of imcompatibility? I am not yet familiar with
Word but I'm very familiar with WordPerfect. I'm revising Word documents
sent to me but I'm doing the revisions in WordPerfect. Thanks in advance.