RE: Converting WP5.* to Word (yet again!)
- From: "Adri" <Adri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:42:02 -0700
Hi Robert,
Simply putting an extension of .doc does not make it a Word file, nor does
an extension of .wp (or .wpd) automatically make it a WP file. The extension
doesn't really matter, it's the act of saving it and choosing a file 'type'
that matters. Although both programs have a default file extension, you could
still save a file from either program with any extension you want (i.e. any 3
digit combination, not just .doc or .wpd) but that does not affect what
format it is, nor how they convert from one program to the other.
Depending on the files, you may indeed get a lot of 'gook' when converting
WP to Word. I've converted hundreds (probably thousands) of files from WP to
Word and some of them convert very well, others take so much time to clean up
it's faster to retype them. Sometimes you have better results opening them in
WP and saving as a Word file, sometimes not. It's kind of a crap shoot,
dependant on how the file was formatted in WP.
--
Thanks...
Adri
"Sagara" wrote:
> Hello Adri,
> I'm afraid this makes no sense to me! If a file has the extention *.doc
> then it is a Word file; if it has *.wp then it is a WordPerfect file. It
> seems that the best way around this is to buy a very cheap version of
> WordPerfect off ebay and read the files as they actually are - in WordPerfect
> 12 (going for a song on ebay) I can even convert then to Word! What Word 2003
> with the correct converter gives me opening these wp files is a lot of gook!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
> "Adri" wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > --
> > 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
.
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