Wordperfect 5 converter

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I have the same question 0. Report abuse. The worst problem with Word's use of fields in imported WordPerfect files is that Word doesn't let you manipulate these fields in the way it lets you manipulate other fields. Most of Word's fields can be displayed by toggling Alt-F9, but the fields that Word uses when converting symbols from WP files are special invisible fields that cannot be displayed. This means that you can't even search for the fields that contain the WP symbols, although you can search for almost all other fields.

If you want to replace the unsearchable field with an ordinary Word-style quotation mark, you will have to look very closely at your document on screen in order to find the symbols that don't look quite right the WP quotation mark is small and narrow, while an ordinary Windows-style quotation mark looks more spacious. For further details, see this article on Word 's handling of WP formats. Another section of this page offers a way to convert these fields into ordinary characters , but the only way I have found to make these hidden fields easily visible is to tell Word to save the imported WP file in Microsoft Word for Windows 2.

The fields are now easily visible, and can be replaced by hand without much effort - unless, of course, you have an enormous number of them in your file. Instead, use WP's Convert. See the section immediately below for details. Files converted by this method will show the correct, searchable characters that Word normally uses for quotation marks and dashes and other symbols. How to fix these problems in files opened in Word XP Word : The simplest way to fix these problems if you have not avoided them is to install and use the special Word macro described elsewhere on this page.

For a general description of the capabilities of the Word , , , , and import filters for WordPerfect 5. If the WP fonts are not present on your system when you open a WP file in Word or Word , then Word smoothly converts almost all WP symbols into the corresponding characters in native Windows fonts.

If the WP fonts are present on your system when you open a WP file in Word , , , , or , then Word converts many typographic symbols such as curly quotation marks, em dashes, en dashes, section marks, and others into complex codes called fields. The problems caused by this behavior are described in the following paragraphs but note that you can avoid these problems by using the method described elsewhere on this page :. How to fix these problems in files opened in Word , , , , or The simplest way to fix these problems if you have not avoided them is to install and use the special Word macro described elsewhere on this page.

You can avoid most problems with fonts in WP files imported into Word if you use the method described elsewhere on this page. However, if you have already opened and saved your WP files in Word, then that method will not fix the problem with existing files. How to fix the problems described above when you have already opened your WP files into Word: With the help of many people more expert than I am notably Helmut Weber, who deserves most of the credit , I have written a Word through Word macro when you click the link, the text of the file WPSymbolConv The macro solves the problem by tricking Word into displaying any unsearchable fields in imported WP files and then replaces those fields with native Windows characters; these replacement characters can be searched and replaced.

You may install the macro in Word XP Word , Word , , , , or by following these instructions. This version of the symbol-converter macro is faster than the version for Word or later, but does not work reliably in Word or later.

Note : A revised version was uploaded 30 May , with increased reliability. Important: If you fail or refuse to read all the instructions below and if you fail or refuse to follow the instructions exactly and in every detail, the macro will not work!

Please do not write me an e-mail complaining that the macro does not compile or does not work unless you have read all the instructions and followed them exactly. Read all the following instructions with great care!

Yes, all! Before you download the file, make sure that you have Windows set up to display all file extensions in Windows Explorer , as described elsewhere on this site. This macro will only work if the special WordPerfect TrueType symbol fonts are installed on your system!

However, the macro only requires the specific WordPerfect font or fonts that your Word document expects to find, and typically the only one it needs is the one named WP Typographic Symbols. If you do not have the fonts on your system, and you use bit Windows, you can download the full set of WP symbol fonts from Corel's web site, and install some or all of them before trying to run the macro.

Under bit Windows, download the same fonts in a ZIP archive. Select the one that matches your version of Microsoft Word! From the menu that appears when you right-click on the link, choose Save Target As What exactly does "right-click" mean? When you are certain that Word has no document open, press Alt-F11 to bring up the Microsoft Visual Basic editor in which Word macros can be edited.

Press Ctrl-R to go to the Project panel near the upper left of the window. Use the arrow keys or mouse to navigate to the bold-faced name "Normal" near the top of the panel; if your default template is named something other than "Normal" i. Now, on the top-line menu, use Insert, UserForm; ignore the "form" that opens on screen; press Ctrl-F4 to close the form that you have now inserted. A UserForm must be present in your copy of Word before the macro can be installed, but you should not do anything with the form; simply let it exist.

Click on that filename and make sure the name appears in the Filename field near the bottom of the dialog. Click Open to import the file. On the File menu, choose Save Normal or whatever is the name of your default template in order to save the imported files with your default template. Do not modify or save the file; when you run the macro, it will make a backup copy for you! For safety reasons, the macro will not run on a file that has been saved in Word!

However, if you know what you are doing, and need to use the macro on files that have been saved in Word, see the note immediately below. The macro will tell you that it has made a backup of your file, and after you click OK on one or more warning messages, the macro will start. Note: If the macro pops up an error message saying "This macro only runs on a document that has not been edited or saved" and you are certain that you have neither edited nor saved the document, then something in your Word setup is misreporting the state of the document.

This may be caused by add-in software. Search through the macro code until you find a line that begins " ' Don't run if document has been changed since last saved ". Deactivate the next nine lines up to and including " End if " by adding a comment mark a single quotation mark at the start of each of those nine lines, as in the other commented-out lines that you will see elsewhere in the file. Press Alt-F4 to close the Visual Basic editor. Note that this procedure will also allow you to override the safety feature that prevents this macro from running on files that have already been saved; you may prefer to use the macro without this safety feature, but be certain that you know what you are doing.

Important troubleshooting message! Read this! Now run the macro on the saved. When the macro starts working, you will be prompted to press Enter when Word's Insert Symbol dialog appears. When the dialog appears, press Enter once only! Then do nothing while the macro works; you will see the Insert Symbol dialog repeatedly pop up and then disappear again.

Wait for it to disappear each time after the first time! The screen may look extremely busy or distorted while the macro runs, and you may see the vertical scroll bar move up and down many times. Ignore all unexpected visual effects! At the end, most of the WP symbols should be converted into Windows symbols. If you do not like the result, simply close the file without saving it, and no harm will be done. If some symbols are not properly converted, see see another paragraph.

If this happens, press Enter or Insert once only , and then do nothing while the macro works, and the Insert Symbol dialog repeatedly opens. If some symbols are not properly converted, see another paragraph. Read this now! The macro is set initially for safe but relatively slow operation; it can be speeded up especially on large documents by making a small change in the code.

How to convert unconverted symbols: The macro as written converts only the most commonly used symbols, but is easily modified to convert any symbol you choose. This displays the symbol and character number information for all the symbols in a document that were not transformed by the main WPSymbolCharacter macro.

Email when done? Drop your files to convert them. File Size Warning. You are attempting to upload a file that exceeds our 50MB free limit. No, thanks Continue uploading file. Files to Convert. File Name File Size Progress. WPD Document File extension. It is a historically popular word processing file format, which can also be opened by most versions of Microsoft Word. Development of the DOS and Macintosh versions of WordPerfect were stopped in but the Windows version is still under active development by current owners Corel.

WordPerfect was the top selling word processing software during the 's and early 's, and retains a big fanclub to this day so much so that it was still the second most popular office suite up to a couple of years ago.