How to Open, Edit, or Convert a .WPD (Word Perfect) File in Windows

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon October 20, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: 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 —

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.

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  • Anon.
    Very Helpful! Thanks a bunch! ^_^
  • stuff
    who is micky mouse?
  • Paul
    Helpful. Thank you.
  • Anonymous
    Thanks! Helped a lot!
  • Megan
    THANK YOU!!!!!!
  • Jason
    Doesn't work.

    You just get an error message from Word saying the file is already in use or can't be read.
  • t
    I opened it! Thanks!
  • t
    I opened it! THanks
  • Katie
    WHAT A HELP! THANKS!
  • Not to shabby. the plug-in worked the best and it's less than 1mb! Thanks for your help
  • Chuck
    OpenOffice 3.0 opened a .WPD file for me with no trouble.
  • Chad
    how?
  • ASDFGHJ
    thank you so much! now i can pass in my project in on time :P
  • muriel
    AWESOME! (:
    thank you! :D
  • KLM
    Thank you so much!
    Works perfect
    Very helpful
    Saved me loads of time!!
  • Anon
    Does not work. MS Word then asks for which conversion, and Word Perfect is not in the list.
  • Kathy
    Thank you! Thank you!
  • Karl
    Thanks!
  • HELP
    it doesnt work :S i guess the file that is wpd is a newer version
  • Sevn
    Worked like a charm.
  • Dexster
    I followed the instructions and opened it with MS Office 2007. No problems.
  • Gary
    don't work says older version of wp, word 2007
  • Gini1
    That's my problem...were you ever able to convert word perfect to word?
  • anonymous
    THANK YOU SO MUCH! Worked for me!
  • drjmadaan
    thanks for helpful info
  • Name
    This was great! Thank you!!
  • Me
    Corel's browser plug-in requires Netscape?! Didn't bother to figure out which version, as Word Viewer 2003 opened the file.
  • postdamnit
    Solution worked great with Open Office.
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