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).