WordPerfect was the word processor of the 1980s and 1990s, and law offices, universities and government archives still hold thousands of its documents. Word can't always open them any more, and WordPerfect itself is rarely installed. This converter reads them without WordPerfect.
How to convert WordPerfect to Word
- Add the
.wpdor.wpfile above, or a ZIP of a whole folder of them. - Keep Convert to: Word (DOCX) to edit them, or choose PDF to read and archive them.
- Press Convert and download the results; a ZIP keeps your folders.
Documents from WordPerfect 4.2, 5.1 and 6.1 have been tested, and the later versions (7 to X9)
save the same format as 6. WordPerfect 4.2 files have no signature of their own, so they need
their .wp or .wpd name.
What comes across
- Text, paragraphs, bold, italic and underline, tabs and indents.
- Headers and footers, footnotes, tables and page breaks.
What to check
- Fonts: WordPerfect documents name printer fonts such as "Roman 10cpi" or "Arial (TT)", which don't exist on today's computers. They are replaced, and the report lists every font and its replacement. In Word you can select all and pick a font of your own.
- Codes: WordPerfect's hidden formatting codes become Word formatting; unusual ones (merge codes, macros) are not carried over.
- Old DOS layouts that used spaces instead of tabs may no longer line up in a proportional font.
Converting a whole archive at once? Put the folders in a ZIP: the result has the same folders, and the report says which files to look at.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Document Converter.