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

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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.

 

41 Comments -


  1. Anon. said on November 2, 2008

    Very Helpful! Thanks a bunch! ^_^

  2. stuff said on November 25, 2008

    who is micky mouse?

  3. Paul said on December 11, 2008

    Helpful. Thank you.

  4. Anonymous said on December 12, 2008

    Thanks! Helped a lot!

  5. Megan said on December 12, 2008

    THANK YOU!!!!!!

  6. 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.

  7. t said on January 15, 2009

    I opened it! Thanks!

  8. t said on January 15, 2009

    I opened it! THanks

  9. Katie said on March 4, 2009

    WHAT A HELP! THANKS!

  10. 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

  11. Chuck said on March 21, 2009

    OpenOffice 3.0 opened a .WPD file for me with no trouble.

  12. ASDFGHJ said on March 26, 2009

    thank you so much! now i can pass in my project in on time :P

  13. Chad said on March 27, 2009

    how?

  14. muriel said on April 13, 2009

    AWESOME! (:
    thank you! :D

  15. KLM said on April 16, 2009

    Thank you so much!
    Works perfect
    Very helpful
    Saved me loads of time!!

  16. Anon said on May 19, 2009

    Does not work. MS Word then asks for which conversion, and Word Perfect is not in the list.

  17. Kathy said on May 28, 2009

    Thank you! Thank you!

  18. Karl said on June 16, 2009

    Thanks!

  19. HELP said on June 17, 2009

    it doesnt work :S i guess the file that is wpd is a newer version

  20. Sevn said on June 21, 2009

    Worked like a charm.

  21. Dexster said on June 21, 2009

    I followed the instructions and opened it with MS Office 2007. No problems.

  22. Gary said on July 2, 2009

    don’t work says older version of wp, word 2007

  23. anonymous said on August 2, 2009

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! Worked for me!

  24. Anonymous said on August 11, 2009

    That’s my problem…were you ever able to convert word perfect to word?

  25. Anonymous said on August 19, 2009

    thanks for helpful info

  26. Name said on August 27, 2009

    This was great! Thank you!!

  27. 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.

  28. Anonymous said on October 29, 2009

    Solution worked great with Open Office.

  29. Maurice said on December 23, 2009

    Thanks..did the trick!

  30. 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.

  31. Anonymous said on April 23, 2010

    what is extention of wpd

  32. 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.

  33. Sue Gaddam said on December 12, 2010

    It worked, thanks!

  34. Jeb_reid said on January 4, 2011

    Worked like a champ. Many thanks!

  35. Deva said on March 7, 2011

    thanks….

  36. Kris said on April 3, 2011

    awesome add on worked perfectly thanks

  37. Rebecca said on April 14, 2011

    Thank you so much – it worked :D

  38. Sandee said on April 25, 2011

    How can I convert Word Perfect 5.1 to Open Windows?

  39. Judith said on October 20, 2011

    Thanx a million. Life Saver!!

  40. Jan said on December 2, 2011

    Thanks. Very helpful.

  41. Celeste said on January 26, 2012

    This was exactly what I was looking for! Awesome, Thanks so much

 

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