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WordPerfect to Word: "The document name or path is not valid" erro
Hi all,
This may be considered a bit off-topic, but I need to convert large quantities of WordPerfect files into Word 97-2003 format and some of the resulting Word files seem to be corrupt. When I try to open these newly created Word files, I get the error "The document name or path is not valid." Since most of the files convert without a problem, I'm wondering if there is some content in the problem files that prevents the conversion to Word from really working. Of course, maybe that error ("The document name or path is not valid") has some other cause--has anyone seen it? And I should mention, finally, that I have checked and rechecked the document names and path, and changed both of them--to no avail. Thanks a lot! |
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WordPerfect to Word: "The document name or path is not valid"erro
Hi Benjamino
Benjamino5 wrote: This may be considered a bit off-topic, but I need to convert large quantities of WordPerfect files into Word 97-2003 format and some of the resulting Word files seem to be corrupt. Not off-topic at all (at least not to MSFT's idea what this group is supposed to be about). When you talk about "resulting" Word files, that means you have converted them -- how? When I try to open these newly created Word files, I get the error "The document name or path is not valid." Since most of the files convert without a problem, I'm wondering if there is some content in the problem files that prevents the conversion to Word from really working. Of course, maybe that error ("The document name or path is not valid") has some other cause--has anyone seen it? And I should mention, finally, that I have checked and rechecked the document names and path, and changed both of them--to no avail. Since I've never used WP (knowingly :-)), I don't think I can contribute much, but see the following articles: WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are perfect, by Hafiz) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wo...Converters.htm How Word differs from WordPerfect (by John McGhie) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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WordPerfect to Word: "The document name or path is not valid"
Robert,
I converted them simply by choosing "Save As..." in WordPerfect and selecting "Word 97/2000/2002/2003 Format". I noticed that there is a dedicated conversion utility in WordPerfect Office X3, but it only converts TO the WordPerfect format. Is there a better way to convert the files? Thanks, Ben |
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WordPerfect to Word: "The document name or path is not valid"
Hi Benjamino
Benjamino5 wrote: I converted them simply by choosing "Save As..." in WordPerfect and selecting "Word 97/2000/2002/2003 Format". Well, if you cannot open the resulting file at all in Word, there's not much you can do (short of trying to copy the raw text out of the file -- but then, a save as: TXT (of the original files in WP) would be a lot easier. Of course, you can try other intermediate formats (dunno if WP offers RTF?). The alternative is to try to let Word open and convert the original WP file. Word 2000 has converters for WP 5 and 6, for instance. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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