How to Open, Edit, or Convert a .WPD (Word Perfect) File in Windows
Basic steps for opening, searching, converting, and viewing WPD files without Word Perfect being installed. Instructions for opening WPD files in word are also included.
- Searching — [list]Searching Word Perfect files is now much easier now that a word perfect plug-in is available for google desktop search.
Viewing —
- Microsoft’s Word Viewer 2003 can view word perfect (5.x-6.x) files.
If you would like to view the file in your browser, you can install this word perfect browser plug-in from corel.
Opening/Editing –
- 1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Click File
3. Click Open
4. In the Files of Type: dropdown box change to All Files (*.*)
5. Browse to the file
6. Click it and select OK
7. It will perform the conversion
Note — If you are still having problems, you can open WP and Word and copy and paste between the programs as well.






Anon. said on November 2, 2008
Very Helpful! Thanks a bunch! ^_^
stuff said on November 25, 2008
who is micky mouse?
Paul said on December 11, 2008
Helpful. Thank you.
Anonymous said on December 12, 2008
Thanks! Helped a lot!
Megan said on December 12, 2008
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Jason said on December 30, 2008
Doesn’t work.
You just get an error message from Word saying the file is already in use or can’t be read.
t said on January 15, 2009
I opened it! Thanks!
t said on January 15, 2009
I opened it! THanks
Katie said on March 4, 2009
WHAT A HELP! THANKS!
Jake Long said on March 9, 2009
Not to shabby. the plug-in worked the best and it’s less than 1mb! Thanks for your help
Chuck said on March 21, 2009
OpenOffice 3.0 opened a .WPD file for me with no trouble.
ASDFGHJ said on March 26, 2009
thank you so much! now i can pass in my project in on time :P
Chad said on March 27, 2009
how?
muriel said on April 13, 2009
AWESOME! (:
thank you! :D
KLM said on April 16, 2009
Thank you so much!
Works perfect
Very helpful
Saved me loads of time!!
Anon said on May 19, 2009
Does not work. MS Word then asks for which conversion, and Word Perfect is not in the list.
Kathy said on May 28, 2009
Thank you! Thank you!
Karl said on June 16, 2009
Thanks!
HELP said on June 17, 2009
it doesnt work :S i guess the file that is wpd is a newer version
Sevn said on June 21, 2009
Worked like a charm.
Dexster said on June 21, 2009
I followed the instructions and opened it with MS Office 2007. No problems.
Gary said on July 2, 2009
don’t work says older version of wp, word 2007
anonymous said on August 2, 2009
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Worked for me!
Anonymous said on August 11, 2009
That’s my problem…were you ever able to convert word perfect to word?
Anonymous said on August 19, 2009
thanks for helpful info
Name said on August 27, 2009
This was great! Thank you!!
Me said on September 16, 2009
Corel’s browser plug-in requires Netscape?! Didn’t bother to figure out which version, as Word Viewer 2003 opened the file.
Anonymous said on October 29, 2009
Solution worked great with Open Office.
Maurice said on December 23, 2009
Thanks..did the trick!
Carol Kushner said on April 15, 2010
I use Firefox Mozilla – it has a download manager — the word file I need to open was sent to my gmail account. The download manager does not allow me to specify where to save the file…. when I click on it I can’t open it. This is truly driving me nuts.
Anonymous said on April 23, 2010
what is extention of wpd
Bhayes50 said on July 20, 2010
Re: “How to Open, Edit, or Convert a .WPD (Word Perfect) File in Windows”
I’m working with an iMac and have loaded MS Office for Mac.
I am unable to open a Word Perfect document.
Step 4 of the above instructions does not work because there is no “Files of Type” option to click on.
Sue Gaddam said on December 12, 2010
It worked, thanks!
Jeb_reid said on January 4, 2011
Worked like a champ. Many thanks!
Deva said on March 7, 2011
thanks….
Kris said on April 3, 2011
awesome add on worked perfectly thanks
Rebecca said on April 14, 2011
Thank you so much – it worked :D
Sandee said on April 25, 2011
How can I convert Word Perfect 5.1 to Open Windows?
Judith said on October 20, 2011
Thanx a million. Life Saver!!
Jan said on December 2, 2011
Thanks. Very helpful.
Celeste said on January 26, 2012
This was exactly what I was looking for! Awesome, Thanks so much