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Unfortunately Microsoft has made it impossible to ignore it and use something
else. I lived in Ireland for a year, where nothing BUT the ubiquitous microsoft word was available on office computers. Although I save all my documents in rtf, upon my return I discovered I CAN'T convert them back to wordperfect. THEY MUST BE OPENED IN WORD. And now Microsoft has made it impossible to complain to anyone who can do anything about it. They set up some discussion group to allow us to vent our spleen, but never accomplish anything substantive. They don't provide a single way for me to ask a simple question about how I can convert my documents back to WP, thus forcing me to use their substandard product. It should be illegal. "TF" wrote: Hear! Hear! PLONK. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Amedee Van Gasse" wrote in message ... : David shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers: : : I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or : illogical piece of software. : : Fortunately you have every right in the world to ignore it and use : something else. : Likewise people here have every right in the world to ignore *you* and : read something else. : : G'day! : : *plonk* : : -- : Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.1.2 : If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? : Please don't thank me in advance. Thank me afterwards if it works or : hit me in the face if it doesn't. ;-) |
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Though I've never used WordPerfect, I'm quite sure that you can tell it to
open RTF documents. I think you are doing something wrong. Try using File | Open from inside WP instead of double-clicking. On 9/1/05 10:08 AM, "andalucia" wrote: Unfortunately Microsoft has made it impossible to ignore it and use something else. I lived in Ireland for a year, where nothing BUT the ubiquitous microsoft word was available on office computers. Although I save all my documents in rtf, upon my return I discovered I CAN'T convert them back to wordperfect. THEY MUST BE OPENED IN WORD. And now Microsoft has made it impossible to complain to anyone who can do anything about it. They set up some discussion group to allow us to vent our spleen, but never accomplish anything substantive. They don't provide a single way for me to ask a simple question about how I can convert my documents back to WP, thus forcing me to use their substandard product. It should be illegal. |
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Would you please let us know the details of how you are trying to open the
files in Word Perfect and how you save them in Word. Word will save to Word Perfect 5 for Windows format. Word Perfect will open Word files. There is something wrong with what you are doing or with your particular configuration. We can't help unless we have details. Consider posting this to the conversion news group. NEWS://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rd.conversions Corel's news groups about Word Perfect are available through their web site http://www.corel.com http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satelli...=1047024361372 and by NNTP. NEWS://cnews.corel.com/corel.WordPerfect12 is for, wait for it, Word Perfect 12. Microsoft contact information is here. http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=mscom Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "andalucia" wrote in message ... : Unfortunately Microsoft has made it impossible to ignore it and use something : else. I lived in Ireland for a year, where nothing BUT the ubiquitous : microsoft word was available on office computers. Although I save all my : documents in rtf, upon my return I discovered I CAN'T convert them back to : wordperfect. THEY MUST BE OPENED IN WORD. And now Microsoft has made it : impossible to complain to anyone who can do anything about it. They set up : some discussion group to allow us to vent our spleen, but never accomplish : anything substantive. They don't provide a single way for me to ask a simple : question about how I can convert my documents back to WP, thus forcing me to : use their substandard product. It should be illegal. : : "TF" wrote: : : Hear! Hear! PLONK. : : -- : Terry Farrell - Word MVP : http://word.mvps.org/ : : "Amedee Van Gasse" wrote in message : ... : : David shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers: : : : : I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or : : illogical piece of software. : : : : Fortunately you have every right in the world to ignore it and use : : something else. : : Likewise people here have every right in the world to ignore *you* and : : read something else. : : : : G'day! : : : : *plonk* : : : : -- : : Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.1.2 : : If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? : : Please don't thank me in advance. Thank me afterwards if it works or : : hit me in the face if it doesn't. ;-) : : : |
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My version of WordPerfect (10) opens *.rtf files. Yours might too.
GR "andalucia" wrote in message ... Unfortunately Microsoft has made it impossible to ignore it and use something else. I lived in Ireland for a year, where nothing BUT the ubiquitous microsoft word was available on office computers. Although I save all my documents in rtf, upon my return I discovered I CAN'T convert them back to wordperfect. THEY MUST BE OPENED IN WORD. And now Microsoft has made it impossible to complain to anyone who can do anything about it. They set up some discussion group to allow us to vent our spleen, but never accomplish anything substantive. They don't provide a single way for me to ask a simple question about how I can convert my documents back to WP, thus forcing me to use their substandard product. It should be illegal. "TF" wrote: Hear! Hear! PLONK. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Amedee Van Gasse" wrote in message ... : David shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers: : : I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or : illogical piece of software. : : Fortunately you have every right in the world to ignore it and use : something else. : Likewise people here have every right in the world to ignore *you* and : read something else. : : G'day! : : *plonk* : : -- : Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.1.2 : If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? : Please don't thank me in advance. Thank me afterwards if it works or : hit me in the face if it doesn't. ;-) |
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