Charles,

I'm not sure if our network person has an anti-Wordperfect bias but he
says it seems to be a problem with Wordperfect itself.

Your suggestion as to auto conversion is a possibility, if what you
mean is something that converts many files at once. We have thousands
of old files and of course one cannot predict which ones would be
useful in the future; ALL of them will have to be searchable. But how
do you run auto conversion? Word's Help files don't seem to refer to
tit.