[Walt]

I have clients using a mix of word processing applications . . .especially
WORD and WordPerfect. Recently, I upgraded to Office 2007 and found that WORD
2007 documents cannot be saved in WordPerfect format. My earlier Word (Word
2003) had an add-in that allowed this.

As a "work around" one can save the WORD document in WORD 2.0 (which
WordPerfect CAN read) but there is significant re-formatting work to do.
Saving as WORD 6.0 is worse but, still, will allow a WordPerfect read.

Does anyone else have a better solution?

[Jay Freedman]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:38:20 -0700, Walt
wrote:

I have clients using a mix of word processing applications . . .especially
WORD and WordPerfect. Recently, I upgraded to Office 2007 and found that WORD
2007 documents cannot be saved in WordPerfect format. My earlier Word (Word
2003) had an add-in that allowed this.

As a "work around" one can save the WORD document in WORD 2.0 (which
WordPerfect CAN read) but there is significant re-formatting work to do.
Saving as WORD 6.0 is worse but, still, will allow a WordPerfect read.

Does anyone else have a better solution?

MVP Graham Mayor has the old WordPerfect converter posted for download
on his site http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm. I don't know whether
it works properly with Word 2007, but it's worth a try.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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[Walt]

Jay,

Thank you for the try. I did download the file and will try it but, earlier
today, I was talking to the Microsoft Help people and they brought up the
Add-in you referenced . . . saying, specifically, that it doesn't work. In
their good time, the MS people will probably build this capability into
Service Pack # ? to Office 2007. Until then, (and unless I get help from
others), I guess I will have to use the Word 2 workaround.

Again, thank you!

Walt

M

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:38:20 -0700, Walt
wrote:

I have clients using a mix of word processing applications . . .especially
WORD and WordPerfect. Recently, I upgraded to Office 2007 and found that WORD
2007 documents cannot be saved in WordPerfect format. My earlier Word (Word
2003) had an add-in that allowed this.

As a "work around" one can save the WORD document in WORD 2.0 (which
WordPerfect CAN read) but there is significant re-formatting work to do.
Saving as WORD 6.0 is worse but, still, will allow a WordPerfect read.

Does anyone else have a better solution?

MVP Graham Mayor has the old WordPerfect converter posted for download
on his site http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm. I don't know whether
it works properly with Word 2007, but it's worth a try.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Graham Mayor]

Microsoft is constantly working on security issues and vulnerabilities were
found with some of the older filters. In Word 2003 it was possible to
restore the filters and they would work - and to some extent that remains
true, inasmuch as you could still use the old WP filters to open WP
documents, though it is no longer possible to save. The older filters will
still work (at your own risk) and can be downloaded from my web site, but
security updates will undoubtedly change them in the future. The filters may
not be able to export any graphics in your document.

WP should be able to open Word 97-2003 format documents?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Walt wrote:
I have clients using a mix of word processing applications . .
.especially WORD and WordPerfect. Recently, I upgraded to Office 2007
and found that WORD 2007 documents cannot be saved in WordPerfect
format. My earlier Word (Word 2003) had an add-in that allowed this.

As a "work around" one can save the WORD document in WORD 2.0 (which
WordPerfect CAN read) but there is significant re-formatting work to
do. Saving as WORD 6.0 is worse but, still, will allow a WordPerfect
read.

Does anyone else have a better solution?

[CyberTaz]

As Graham indicated WP "should" be able to read the 97/2003 format, but it
may depend on the version of WP. If that isn't working for you & you're not
willing to go the "hit or miss" filter route you may want to invest in
Conversions Plus... Excellent capability beyond what you need, but not
outrageously priced if you need to make frequent conversions:

http://www.dataviz.com/products/conv...lus/index.html

HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 8/20/07 5:38 PM, in article
, "Walt"
wrote:

I have clients using a mix of word processing applications . . .especially
WORD and WordPerfect. Recently, I upgraded to Office 2007 and found that WORD
2007 documents cannot be saved in WordPerfect format. My earlier Word (Word
2003) had an add-in that allowed this.

As a "work around" one can save the WORD document in WORD 2.0 (which
WordPerfect CAN read) but there is significant re-formatting work to do.
Saving as WORD 6.0 is worse but, still, will allow a WordPerfect read.

Does anyone else have a better solution?