That is correct... I think it was Service Pack 3 for Office XP that
replaced the read/write WordPerfect 5.x converter with a new read-only
version because the read/write converter could allow malicious macros to
run or viruses to be installed. If you so desire, you can reinstall the
old WP5.x converter from your Office XP CD.

EltonRon wrote:

I used to be able to do this, but now the Word 2002 from Office XP software
gives me a message saying "Word cannot save files in the WordPerfect 5.x"
format (even though that is one of the choices on the pull-down save-as menu).

It goes on to say that the converter can ONLY view Wordperfect files, but
cannot convert from Word to Wordperfect (and I have the latest office
updates, per the site update tool).