The files are displayed based on the extension. In File/Open, if you look at
the description for any WP5x files, it says *.doc, therefore it is expecting
to see a .doc extension on the file name, which is fairly unlikely for most
WP files.

However, the fact that they only display when you choose 'all files' doesn't
mean that their conversion into Word will be any different than if they had
displayed when you chose WP5x. You're not actually selecting the converter
here, it's only a display. If you have the converter installed, the files
will convert. If you try to open them and get an error message, then you need
to install the converter.
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Thanks...
Adri


"Sagara" wrote:

Hello, I've received a whole series of text files in WP5.* form. In Word
2003 they only show up in File/Open when I select All Files, but not when I
select WordPerfect 5.*. I've looked at most (if not all) the previous
discussions on converting WP to Word, as well as various web sites, but this
problem remains. I've even found a friend who has WP 10, and got him to make
some files and save them in both in WP 5.0 and WP 5.1, and again Word cannot
even see them when the WordPerfect 5.* converter is selected - they are only
seen in All Files. I've re-installed the Converters twice, as well as other
stuff from the WWW (I can see then in a converter called Recover Text From
Any File, but this produces so much stuff besides the text that editing out
all this and reformatting it would take on hour for each file!

Any ideas (they files are quite important to me).

Thanks,

Robert